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.

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.

The just-released agenda for its Oct. 22 public meeting includes several incentive auction-related items...

“Once you leave here, you’re on the clock,” said Gary Epstein, chair of the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force.

The application window for selling spectrum in the 2016 TV spectrum incentive auction opens Tuesday, Dec. 8 at noon.

The reverse auction application workshop originally scheduled for Nov. 17 has been moved to Dec. 8.

The window for broadcasters to apply to participate in the TV spectrum incentive auction has been pushed back due to some new numbers.

“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….”

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.