The FCC has “declared war” on broadcasters, especially...
The FCC has “declared war” on broadcasters, especially low-power TV (LPTV) and translator stations, said the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance in a news release Thursday. The commission’s auction order “wrongly defined LPTV to a status below wireless,” said ATBA Executive…
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Director Louis Libin, adding that the auction is “poisonous” to LPTV. The FCC had previously defined low-power TV as secondary to full-power stations, but the auction framework leaves LPTV secondary to wireless as well, said ATBA board member and LPTV station owner Randy Weiss in the release. “It is unconscionable that the FCC would now try to redefine secondary status with the singular intent of enabling the confiscation of spectrum licensed to small broadcasters,” said Weiss. The release called for a “grass roots movement” of low- and full-power broadcasters and citizens to oppose the auction framework.