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NAB Talks to Media Bureau About Risks of FM Reimbursement Plan

NAB raised “risks” of an FCC proposal for a graduated reimbursement schedule for radio stations affected by the repacking, in a phone call with the Media Bureau Tuesday, recounted a filing Thursday in docket 18-214. “We discussed the Commission’s discretion…

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to determine how to allocate funding Congress recently made available to the Commission for Fiscal Year 2019.” The association has taken the position that legislation authorizing the additional repacking allows the agency to use FY 2019 funds to compensate FM stations (see 1807260020), while the recent reimbursement NPRM proposes limiting payments to funds from FY 2018 (see 1808020034).