TV Licensees Should Update Contact Information, Say Media Bureau, IATF
It is “essential” for TV licensees to have correct contact information on file with the FCC, said the Media Bureau and the Incentive Auction Task Force in a public notice Thursday. “We anticipate communicating directly with stations about channel reassignments…
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(repacking) resulting from the ongoing broadcast television spectrum incentive auction.” The need for contact information applies to stations that participated in the incentive auction and those that didn’t, the PN said. “If a station was selected by a licensee on a Form 177 application for the incentive auction, the Commission will use the contact information currently contained in the Form 177 to communicate with the licensee about that station and any channel reassignment for it, regardless of subsequent events affecting that station’s participation in the auction.” Otherwise, the FCC will use the contact information in the licensing and management system, the PN said. Also Thursday, the FCC said the incentive auction stage 2 forward auction will soon start (see 1610130038).