Media Bureau Seeks Comment on Gray Anchorage Waivers
The Media Bureau is seeking comment on proposed waivers of the channel substitution freeze and contour extension freeze for Gray TV’s KYES-TV Anchorage, it said in an NPRM released Monday in docket 17-187. The Media Bureau believes the waivers would…
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serve the public interest and that Gray’s proposal “warrants consideration,” the NPRM said. Gray committed to improving the station’s service to viewers when it acquired KYES last year under a failing station waiver, the NPRM said. “Rather than remain at a remote, frequently powerless site and expend large sums on a new antenna and transmission line,” Gray seeks to “move KYES to the transmitter site of sister station KTUU and broadcast from an existing broadband antenna shared by three other stations,” the NPRM said.