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Little Known About Broadcaster Participation Until Auction Takes Place, FCC Chief Says

Little will be known about the level of broadcaster participation in the TV incentive auction until the auction actually takes place, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Friday during a news conference after the commission's open meeting. "This is a marketplace…

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that we're talking about here," he said. "We're creating a marketplace. We're trying to provide information that's relevant to that marketplace so that people can make decisions." Wheeler declined to say whether any incentive auction-related items will be on the agenda for the November meeting. The FCC is sticking with the "agenda" for the auction established by the FCC right after he took office, Wheeler said.