The FCC has lifted the freeze on filing applications for minor changes in existing Low Power TV (LPTV) and TV translator stations, effective today, July 3. The freeze was lifted without advance warning, and applications will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. This process is different from the recent window for filing displacement applications … Continue Reading
On April 18, Commission’s Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau announced that it was extending the special filing window for displaced Low Power Television and TV Translator Stations for a few extra weeks. The window for filing such applications will now close on June 1 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The original due date was … Continue Reading
Comment deadlines have just been set in the proceeding which would pave the way for the re-purposing of TV spectrum for broadband use.… Continue Reading
That muffled sound you might have heard on November 30 was the opening barrage in the long-anticipated struggle to revamp the TV spectrum.… Continue Reading
Chairman Genachowski recently took to the pages of the Washington Post in defense of the FCC's broadband initiative. FHH's Peter Tannenwald now takes to CommLawBlog.com with a decidedly different perspective on that initiative.… Continue Reading
Those of you awaiting the unveiling of the FCC's plan for re-purposing TV spectrum may want to get warmed up by leafing through two reports just issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).… Continue Reading
The FCC's planned agenda for its November 30 meeting serves up items likely to cause such a huge stir that we all might need a little advance warning.… Continue Reading