Deborah D McAdams

The assignment phase of the TV spectrum incentive auction will commence March 6 and run through March 30, which signals the end of the auction and the start of the repack.

The fourth and final forward TV spectrum incentive auction has now closed at $19,632,506,746, but the auction itself is not over. Forward auction winners will next vie for specific frequencies.

The commission boosted the activity requirement and the opening bid price per round as the auction wears on.

Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it expects to receive an estimated $313 million of gross proceeds from the TV spectrum incentive auction.

Fox Television Stations’ anticipated $350 million in auction proceeds fell short of the expectations of analysts at Wells Fargo, who, along with many others, expected higher overall revenues.

The chairman declared that henceforth the commissioner’s will vote on consent decrees, which are now at the discretion of the chief of the Enforcement Bureau and the chairman’s office.

OTA Broadcasting wants to sell stations to wireless providers in a post-auction aftermarket.

The company said that operations would not be materially affected, which means the company may be working out channel-sharing arrangements.

The TV spectrum incentive action is going into lightning rounds as the prices inch up in a handful of smaller markets where demand continues to exceed supply

The Federal Communications Commission today waived the quiet period that enjoined broadcasters from talking shop during the TV spectrum incentive auction.

This version includes an updated interference-check mode, new map output options, support for additional or updated underlying data sources, and several new analysis modes.

Next-generation broadcast television will launch with public interest obligations but not must-carry nor a tuner mandate under rules proposed Thursday by the FCC.

The FCC modified its Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) rule for Globalstar in a December Report & Order and published in the Federal Register Tuesday.

Broadcast attorneys are asking incentive auction organizers when they can talk, already.

There’s no avoiding a deadline.

Broadcasters participating in the TV spectrum incentive auction are seeking $40.3 billion for the 108 MHz now targeted for clearing.

Scientists at MIT are using machine learning to create video from a single still shot.

Broadcasters will set their final collective asking price for 108 MHz of TV spectrum on Thursday, and bidding by wireless providers for that spectrum will start four days later, on Monday, Dec. 5.

Federal officials field tested drone zappers at Denver International Airport last week.

How about ruling on white-space device geolocation already, the broadcast lobby told regulators recently.