Public television leaders repeated their support for a 0.5 percent per...
Public television leaders repeated their support for a 0.5 percent per station interference standard for stations that are reassigned in the broadcast incentive auction repacking process as long as the aggregate additional interference received from all stations is capped at…
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1 percent. A 1 percent aggregate cap is necessary because findings by the FCC Incentive Auction Task Force conclude that some stations could experience new aggregate interference well over 1 percent, said the Association of Public Television Stations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS in comments posted Tuesday in docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1kaK6jQ). The analysis doesn’t account for the potential interference with service to cable or satellite receive facilities, “to which stations must deliver a good quality signal, and which service may be impinged by the repacking and does not appear to be considered at all in these studies,” they said. Any amount of new interference frustrates the public TV mission to provide universal service, but applying a 1 percent interference cap would prevent the significant service loss that otherwise would occur without such a cap, they said.