Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee says Congress will have to find the money to make up the difference between the $1.75 billion allocated for the post broadcast incentive auction repack and what it is actually going to cost and that he is on the case.
Of the payees, 11 will be going off the air, 132 will channel share and 30 volunteered to move to a lower channel in exchange for a payment.
No.1 DMA New York topped the charts, with 10 TV stations carrying 29 networks selling for north of $1.4 billion.
Jean Kiddoo has been named chair of the Incentive Auction Task Force and that Hillary DeNigro will join her as deputy chair.
With the end of the FCC’s spectrum auction in January, it’s time to measure its damaging effects on broadcasters.
With the close of the FCC broadcast incentive auction last week, FCC Incentive Auction Task Force chairman Gary Epstein will be exiting at the end of the month, Epstein confirmed to B&C.
PBS SoCal KOCE, the flagship PBS station for Southern California, including Los Angeles, announced it earned $49 million in the FCC incentive auction and will invest the one-time revenues in content, broadband distribution platforms and its financial well-being.
T-Mobile was the big winner in the recently concluded TV spectrum incentive auction, followed by Dish and Comcast, according to Marci Ryvicker, senior analyst at Wells Fargo.
The auction results are in and the new TV channel assignments are out.
The incentive auction officially closed today and the TV channel repack officially began with the issuance of the Federal Communications Commission’s “Auction Closing and Channel Reassignment Public Notice,” which brought a round of reactions from broadcasters, observers and administrators.
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.
E.W. Scripps Company has officially announced that it will not receive proceeds from the auctioning of broadcast spectrum.
Tribune Media expects $190 million in pre-tax proceeds from auction.
The comment period has been extended for weighing in on the TV channel repack reporting requirements to Feb. 17, with replies due Feb. 27.
Incentive auction organizers will boost the amount bid prices will increase between rounds starting Wednesday, Feb. 1.
TV Incentive spectrum auction proceeds hit $18,505,053,387 after nine rounds of bidding concluded on Wednesday, Jan. 25.
The closing criteria of the television spectrum incentive auction have been met at $18.2 billion in bids for 70 MHz of public airwaves.
The $80 billion windfall predicted from the TV spectrum incentive auction failed to materialize eight months in.
The Federal Communications Commission today set a third-stage clearing target of 108 MHz for the TV incentive spectrum auction.
The second stage of the TV spectrum incentive auction has closed...
The second stage of the TV spectrum incentive auction has closed at a clearing target cost of $54.6 billion, north of twice what the $23.1 billion wireless providers bid in the first stage of the forward auction.
There are more moving parts in the broadcast TV business than a Swiss watch with tectonic-sized components.
Broadcasters’ opening bid prices are out. The Federal Communications Commission today released the opening bid price that it will offer each broadcaster in the 2016 TV spectrum incentive auction.
An FCC request for comment on a proposal to reserve one vacant UHF TV channel in each geographic area of the U.S. for use by unlicensed white space devices and wireless mics unleashed criticism from an array of television industry organizations.