incentive auction

“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way….”

The National Association of Broadcasters has asked regulators to reconsider the 39-month repacking window following next year’s TV spectrum incentive auction.

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 National Association of Broadcasters said it’s OK to put six TV stations in the duplex gap in the post-incentive auction repack, but only if they must. The

House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler Tuesday asking him to postpone this Thursday’s vote on incentive auction procedures.

Two post-incentive auction repack simulations are insufficient.

Just how quiet is the “quiet period” following the deadline to apply for the TV spectrum incentive auction?

Eight co-located TV stations in the Salt Lake City market want to stick together in the post-incentive auction channel repack.

The U.S. and Canada have reached an initial agreement on repacking TV stations in the wake of next year’s incentive auction.

Multiple television stations will have the legal option of sharing a 6 MHz channel after the TV spectrum incentive auction next year.