FCC Should Study Repacking Costs to LPTV, Says LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition
The FCC should do an economic study of the impacts of TV channel repacking on low-power TV and translators, said the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition in a meeting with Commissioner Brendan Carr Monday, according to an ex parte filing. Final…
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costs of the repacking to LPTV “will surely exceed $300 million over the next four years,” the group said in docket 12-268. “The FCC has never studied this and needs to do it now!” Such a study should be used as the basis for funding the relocation of LPTV and translators, the LPTV advocate said. “We should be given a fixed amount based on an economic analysis that the FCC should conduct,” it said. “Chairman [Ajit] Pai has indicated that economic analyses should be done for all new FCC rulemakings.”