Excluded Class A Owners Want In on LPTV Reimbursement
The draft reimbursement order doesn't fulfill the intent of Congress because its language excludes three low-power TV stations, said station owners Fifth Street Enterprises, WMTM and the Videohouse in meetings with Incentive Auction Task Force Chief Jean Kiddoo, Media Bureau…
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Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman, and aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and to Commissioners Brendan Carr, Mike O'Rielly and Geoffrey Starks, said a filing Wednesday in docket 18-214. The broadcasters' Class A stations missed the cutoff to participate in the incentive auction but aren't eligible to be reimbursed under the additional funds for LPTV, according to the draft order. The FCC has authority to reimburse their stations for displacement costs, the broadcasters said.