incentive auction

The commission voted last Thursday to adopt the procedures, which lay out the logistics of the two-part auction.

From Congress to courts to Wall Street to rural and low-power TV operators, vehement rhetoric has been flying in the past month about the plan to sell 126 MHz of broadcast spectrum.

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...

The last day to file a petition to challenge incentive auction bidding procedures has been set.

The team brought on at the FCC to create the incentive auction architecture will stay on for the repack and the spectrum hand-off, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told lawmakers this week.

When the upcoming TV spectrum incentive auction concludes later this year, the heavy lift begins.