Sinclair Broadcast signed a multiyear contract with Marketron to use location-based advertising for Sinclair’s stations’ mobile platforms, said Marketron in a news release Tuesday. Marketron's service already is used by “over 60 Sinclair stations across 30 markets,” it said. The service allows location-based targeted ads, it said: “All company stations are expected to implement it by year-end.”

TVfreedom.org, Antennas Direct and TV stations gave away over-the-air TV antennas to more than 2,000 people in Albuquerque, Denver, Oklahoma City, and Rapid City and Sioux Falls in South Dakota, said TV Freedom in a news release Monday. The giveaway was part of TV Freedom’s “Broadcast TV Liberation Tour.” The total retail value of the antennas given away “was approximately $225,000,” the release said.

Broadcasters have until Dec. 30 to file petitions for reconsideration or applications for review of the form broadcasters will use to seek reimbursement for expenses caused by the post-incentive auction repacking, said a Fletcher Heald broadcaster law firm Sunday blog post. The public notice announcing the form was published in Monday's Federal Register, saying the PN took effect then. “The release of the form does not necessarily mean that that form is yet in its absolute cast-in-stone final state. It still must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget, and the Bureau has suggested that at least some tweaking might occur along the way,” said the blog. “If there’s anything in the version of the form as described in the Bureau’s notice that raises any questions, now is the time to try to get those questions resolved.”

PMCM's WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, should be restored to virtual channel 3.10 on an interim basis to address the problem of TVs not tuning to WJLP in an area where a different station is transmitting on the same over-the-air channel, said PMCM in a meeting with FCC Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake Nov. 23, according to an ex parte filing in docket 14-150. The Media Bureau assigned WJLP to virtual channel 33, though PMCM is seeking to be assigned virtual channel 3.10. But many viewers trying to watch WJLP on channel 33 are instead receiving WCBS-TV New York, which broadcasts on that channel, PMCM has said (see 1510010031). PMCM wants the channel restored to 3.10 pending the incentive auction, “which might open new VHF PSIP [Program and System Information Protocol] possibilities acceptable to PMCM and not incompatible with anyone else,” PMCM said.

The FCC quadrennial review shouldn't be “a vehicle” for relaxing ownership rules, Common Cause said in a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Monday, according to an ex parte filing posted Wednesday in docket 09-182. “Nested ownership structures lead to homogenization of content, to the detriment of the public interest.” The record on media ownership is incomplete and “more research must be done should the Commission consider relaxing or eliminating the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules,” said the group.

The FCC Media Bureau granted MMK License a waiver of the significantly viewed exception to the network nonduplication and syndicated exclusivity rules for its WNKY Bowling Green, Kentucky, said an order in Tuesday's Daily Digest. MMK's petition for the waiver was unopposed.

The number of nations at the World Radiocommunication Conference supporting keeping the current UHF spectrum allocation for broadcast TV is growing rapidly, from 34 at the start of WRC-15 (see 1511040040) to about 125 now, North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) said in a news release. "While wireless interests argue that adding a primary mobile allocation in the band would result in 'harmonization,' the truth is that it would result in confusion, disruption, and fragmentation," NABA said Monday. It said the two services are "incompatible, with massive separation distances required to avoid interference between them."

The FCC Media Bureau approved an application to transfer three TV licenses owned by Jack Sander to Tegna, and granted a nine-month temporary waiver of the local TV ownership rule in a transaction connected to Gannett buying Belo, said a letter issued Monday. The stations are in markets where the former Gannett also held newspaper interests: KGW Portland, Oregon; WHAS-TV Louisville; and KMSB Tucson. The nine-month waiver is intended to allow Tegna to unwind a joint sales agreement in Tucson, the letter said.

The FCC Incentive Auction Task Force released the agenda public notice for its Dec. 8 reverse auction application workshop. The 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. workshop will include an overview of “the path to the reverse auction,” a step-by-step review of the application, information about channel sharing and relinquishment options, and a Q&A session, the agenda said. The workshop will also be streamed live with open-captioning via the www.fcc.gov/live, the PN said.

The Media Bureau dismissed an application for review of FCC rules on mobile TV devices after the application’s source, Elgato Systems, agreed to withdraw it “due to the passage of time,” said an order of dismissal issued Friday. Elgato filed the application in 2010, the order said.