NPR Opposes Protected Interference Contour, Graduated Repack Reimbursement
The FCC shouldn’t create a protected contour beyond which FM translator stations are allowed to interfere with full-power stations, said NPR in a meeting Tuesday with Audio Division Chief Albert Shuldiner and Media Bureau staff. NPR recommended “relying on engineering…
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criteria in addressing interference concerns at the FM translator station application stage,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 18-119. The post-incentive auction repack will cause “significant disruption” to public radio, it said. The agency should maximize reimbursement payouts to radio, cover project management costs, and do away with “impractical and unnecessary” proposals for graduated reimbursement, it said.