FCC Extends Comment Deadlines for Incentive Auction NPRM

By Doug Lung
published

Thursday the FCC extended the comment deadline in the Incentive Auction Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Jan. 25, 2013. The deadline for reply comments is now March 12, 2013. Comments and replies were previously due Dec. 21, 2012 and Feb. 19, 2013, respectively. NAB and CTI-Wireless Association filed a joint request for the extension “due to the complex economic, engineering, and policy issues presented by the NPRM.”

The FCC Order states, “we conclude that extension of the comment and reply deadlines to January 25 and March 12, 2013, respectively, is warranted to provide commenters with sufficient time to prepare comments and reply comments that fully respond to the complex economic, engineering, and policy issues raised in the NPRM.”

Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.