If you are planning on filing comments on the FCC's proposals about how LPTV/TV Translator will fare post-repack, we hope you don't have any end-of-year holiday plans on your calendar,… Continue Reading
The FCC has finally begun to address what post-repack life might look like for LPTVs and TV translators - but it presents more questions than answers.… Continue Reading
If you're holding onto a CP for an unbuilt digital low power television (LPTV) or TV Translator station, listen up: the FCC wants to know what you think of a proposed blanket construction deadline extension.… Continue Reading
Nearly six months after the FCC's denied reconsideration of its 2011 DTV transition schedule for Class A and LPTV stations, that decision has made it into the Federal Register - which means the deadline for taking this case to court has now been set.… Continue Reading
The FCC has nixed requests submitted by a number of LPTV and Class A stations looking for relief from spectrum-clearing measures put in place two years ago.… Continue Reading
When full-power stations changed channels as part of the 2009 digital transition, and low-powers adjusted their receivers accordingly, many forgot to tell the FCC. That could give them problems in the near future.… Continue Reading
Because it's in the process of a much-needed update of its calculation methodology, the Commission isn't sure what regulatory fees to charge -- so it has invited comments on two alternative proposals.… Continue Reading
With the reg fee deadline approaching, here's a tip for tax exempt licensees: Despite the fact that your tax exempt - and, therefore, reg fee exempt - status may have previously been demonstrated to and accepted by the FCC, the Commission's records may still not reflect that.… Continue Reading
Last call at the LPTV Free Money Bar. The grant program opened by NTIA three years ago to help Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV translator and TV booster stations through the digital transition is about to close down.… Continue Reading
The urge to free up as much TV spectrum as possible for broadband use has now driven the Commission's Video Division to reach into the grave to take a couple of Class A authorizations back from a dead guy.… Continue Reading
From the FCC's perspective, the chore of repacking existing TV stations would probably be much easier if Class A stations could be downgraded to LPTV status. Where there's a will, there's a way: the downgrading effort has begun.… Continue Reading
The expansion of the ancillary/supplementary services reporting requirement to include LPTV/TV Translator/Class A TV digital operations has become effective . . . and none too soon, since the deadline for filing that report is December 1.… Continue Reading
