The date was published today in the Federal Register, reflecting the March 23 unanimous vote by the Federal Communications Commission to allow channel-sharing arrangements, or “CSAs,” to be hammered out after the auction, and to include low-power TV licensees and translators.
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.
Dielectric said it would unveil the TFU-GTH-BB, a high-powered, broadband pylon UHF antenna with integrated ATSC 3.0-ready technology, at the 2017 NAB Show.
The FCC threw thousands of low-power TV and translator licensees a bone today by giving them full access to the channel-sharing rodeo.
The company said that operations would not be materially affected, which means the company may be working out channel-sharing arrangements.
The eased channel-sharing rules allowing TV stations to select a back-up partner, and to communicate with potential sharing partners without fear of violating the incentive auction rules.
The just-released agenda for its Oct. 22 public meeting includes several incentive auction-related items...
Multiple television stations will have the legal option of sharing a 6 MHz channel after the TV spectrum incentive auction next year.
