Gray Backs Ion Petition on Repacking
The FCC should respond “quickly” to Ion’s petition for reconsideration and adjust its repack timeline and reimbursement policies, Gray Television commented, in docket 12-268 Thursday. Gray joins Meredith, Entravision and Trinity Broadcasting (see 1708180061) in supporting Ion’s petition. Broadcasters need…
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more time than 39 months to manage multiple buildouts in a tight time frame, Gray said. It seconded Ion’s calls for looser reimbursement rules for top-mount antennas and solid-state transmitters and relaxed rules on transmitter headroom. The FCC needs to reassign stations that were assigned Channel 14, Gray said, echoing another focus of Ion’s petition. Stations on that channel are having difficulties with interference, the broadcasters said. “While reassigning stations to Channel 14 may have seemed innocuous and reasonable upon implementation, new facts and real-world experience demonstrate the opposite,” Gray said.