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On the Intertubes: Davina Sashkin Explains the Incentive Auction
Down here in the CommLawBlog bunker, when Davina speaks, we all listen. You should, too. If you’re still feeling a bit lost when people around you start talking about the upcoming Broadcast Incentive...
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LPTV/TV Translators: Post-Repack Plans, Prospects Previewed
In addressing LPTV/translator future, FCC declines to loosen several regulatory leashes Low Power Television (LPTV) and TV translator stations face a difficult and uncertain future in the...
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Update: LPTV/TV Translator Rule Revisions, Proposals Hit the Federal Register
In the closing days of 2015 we reported on the FCC’s long-awaited decision on how it plans to deal with LPTV and TV translator stations as it works its way through the post-auction repack process. The...
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Attention, Reverse Auction Applicants: An Important Letter from the FCC is on...
First Confidential Status Letters advising of potentially fatal incompleteness flaws have been sent to would-be reverse auction applicants; Deadline for corrections: February 26, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (ET)...
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Does the FCC Want to Postpone the Incentive Auction?
Publicly, the Commission appears determined to proceed full speed ahead, but a couple of FCC pleadings to the D.C. Circuit suggest otherwise. Pretty much since the FCC set out on its headlong race to...
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The Videohouse Saga Speeds Up
Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it. That may be what counsel for Videohouse is thinking just now, as the D.C. Circuit has granted their motion for an expedited briefing schedule....
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Update – Latina to FCC: “Stay!”
As the FCC plows ahead with plans to start its reverse auction process by requiring initial commitments by 6:00 p.m. (ET) on March 29, 2016, efforts by stations seeking a ticket into the reverse...
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Reverse Auction Update: FCC Underscores Initial Commitment Deadline, Offers...
The actual Module itself is not slated to become available until two business days before the commitment “window” opens. It’s “damn the stay requests (and appeals), full speed ahead” on the reverse...
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Incentive Auction Update – Another Stay Request Makes it to the D.C. Circuit
We have previously reported that one party (Latina Broadcasters of Daytona Beach, LLC) has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stay either (a) the exclusion of Latina’s application...
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A Glimpse of Reverse Auction Future
FCC releases samples of file formats to be provided to reverse auction participants during auction. In case we were all figuring that the reverse auction was going to be a walk in the park, the FCC has...
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Attention, Reverse Auction Participants: A Small Package of (Potentially)...
Second Confidential Status Letters are on the way! If you’re a TV licensee who submitted a “complete” application to participate in the upcoming reverse auction component of the Incentive Auction, be...
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OMB OK’s Repack Repayment Form
Last fall we reported that the Commission had released the form (official dubbed Form 2100, Schedule 399) to be used by repacked TV licensees seeking reimbursement for their relocation costs once the...
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Pre-Auction Repack Expenses May Be Reimbursed
Announcement clears up uncertainty, ideally encourages preparations that might move repack along faster. If you’re a broadcaster thinking about getting a head start on the incentive auction’s...
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The End Is Near: Spectrum Auction Clearing Target, Schedule Announced
It’s crunch time – so everybody looking to participate in the Incentive Auction should pay close attention. At long last, the Commission has announced the Initial Clearing Target that it plans to shoot...
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Reminder: Reverse Auction Workshop Set for May 24; Agenda Now Available
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the FCC’s announcement of the final steps in the run-up to the start of bidding in the clock phase of the reverse auction portion of the long-awaited,...
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LPTV/TV Translator Deadline … or Punchline … Announced
Bureau announces, sort of, deadline for eligibility for first post-Spectrum Auction displacement window. LPTV and TV Translator licensees have known for some time – at least since last December – that...
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Update: Effective Date Set for More of the New Rules Governing Wireless Mics,...
Effective date of a Wireless Medical Telemetry Service rule is still pending. Last August we reported on a number of changes in the rules governing wireless mics and white space devices, and last...
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Update: Channel-Sharing Provision of New LPTV/TV Translator Rules Now in Effect
Slowly but surely the post-repack regulatory landscape for LPTVs and TV translators is getting established. Back in December, the Commission adopted a number of provisions addressing the predicaments...
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Spectrum Auction Update: An FCC Victory in Court, But Disappointing Forward...
D.C. Circuit tosses LPTV challenge to auction/repack process, but $65 billion differential between forward and reverse auction bids forces second bid round with lower clearing target. On the Spectrum...
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Online Repack Relocation Reimbursement System Now Available for Testing
Sure, we all still have a ways to go before the Incentive Auction wraps, but it’s not too early to start thinking about relocation reimbursements. As we all know, TV stations re-assigned to new...
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