The FCC’s Widelity Report on the costs of...
The FCC’s Widelity Report on the costs of the post-incentive auction repacking effort leaves too many “critical questions” unanswered for broadcasters to provide “meaningful comments,” said NAB in comments filed in docket 12-268 Monday (http://bit.ly/1i8ZlBN). Though the report echoed many…
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of NAB’s earlier comments about the scope of repacking expenses and the timing issues of the large undertaking, it doesn’t address the specifics of how the FCC will use the $1.75 billion reimbursement fund and who will be eligible to receive those funds, NAB said. “The larger point is that the Commission must begin to address significant unanswered questions surrounding the plan and process for relocation and reimbursement,” said NAB. Many of the questions NAB wants answers to concern the nuts and bolts of how stations will be reimbursed and how the catalog of reimbursable expenses will be used in conjunction with the reimbursement fund. The FCC should clarify the catalog “is intended only to provide non-exhaustive guidance to affected stations,” and begin a “notice-and-comment rulemaking process” on the unanswered questions of the repacking “at the earliest opportunity,” NAB said.