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Stainless to Import Tower Crews From Europe, Seeks FCC Help on Interim Antennas
November 27, 2018 |Broadcast

Stainless expects additional tower crews to “help relieve” repacking scheduling difficulties, especially if the FCC provides extra flexibility for broadcasters to use auxiliary antennas, the tower company said in a letter posted Monday in docket 16-306. Stainless was among tower companies that recently told the FCC the current repacking schedule won’t work because of a shortage of such crews (see 1811130072). Though tower company officials said it would take years to train new crews to work on tall broadcast towers, Stainless said it plans to “roughly double” the number of crews by bringing in experienced ones from Europe. “We expect that these measures will provide additional capacity to support station moves in earlier phases than was previously planned by the commission,” Stainless said. The company is expediting its staffing efforts,” the letter said: To help with near-term repacking deadlines, the agency should “address manufacturer and station timing issues” for interim and auxiliary antennas. The tower companies suggested previously shifting the repacking focus to providing stations with interim antennas, which have decreased power but take less time to construct and install, could speed the process. The additional crews could help stations “move to permanent facilities when necessary,” the firm said.

Broadcasters Harmed Competition, Weren't 'Hard Core,' Delrahim Says
November 16, 2018 |Broadcast

The six broadcasters that recently reached consent decrees with DOJ over sharing advertising pacing data “harmed the competitive price-setting process,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim in a speech to the American Bar Association Thursday (see 1811070056). “We have not heard any legitimate pro-competitive justification.” The companies “recognized that a protracted investigation and litigation would serve no purpose,” Delrahim said. “Agreements between competitors to exchange competitively sensitive information can violate the antitrust laws” even if the conduct “does not amount to the type of hard core cartel conduct that the Antitrust Division prosecutes criminally,” he said.

FCC Proposes Smaller Fine Than Base for First-Time Rule Breaker That Moved LPFM Before OK
November 14, 2018 |Broadcast

FCC staff proposed a $5,000 fine, half the base amount, for a first-time rule breaker that moved a low-power FM station before getting an OK, violating rules for less than three weeks. Iglesia Centro de Liberacion can move the transmitter for KJJG South Houston, Texas, along with having less than a two-notch channel distance from two nearby FMs by taking care of the penalty and "if there are no other issues that would preclude grant," the Media Bureau said Tuesday.

Topics:Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Radio CEOs Tell Pai, Carr, Media Bureau of Ownership Regulation Problems
November 14, 2018 |Broadcast

Two radio CEOs told FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Brendan Carr and Deputy Chief Sarah Whitesell and others in the Media Bureau their industry is "threatened" by new competition and "restrained from responding" by "outdated structural ownership rules that have not been substantially updated since 1996." That came in meetings Thursday with Connoisseur Media's Jeffrey Warshaw and Dhruv Prasad of Townsquare Media, recounted a filing Tuesday in docket 18-227. The executives cited competition from Facebook and Google, saying there's "no longer a siloed audio marketplace where broadcast radio stations compete only with each other." The agency may begin its 2018 quadrennial media ownership review next month (see 1811080063).

Nexstar Seeks FCC OK to Buy KFVE Honolulu for About $6.5 Million
November 13, 2018 |Broadcast

Nexstar is seeking FCC OK to buy KFVE (MyNetworkTV) Honolulu in an approximately $6.5 million deal, it told the agency in documents posted Thursday. Nexstar owns KHON-TV (Fox) Honolulu and two satellite stations in that market. It also seeks to buy, all from HITV License and in that market, KFVE satellite stations KGMV Wailuku and KGMD-TV Hilo.

NC TV Station Owners Paying $2 Million as Result of Incentive Auction Probe
November 13, 2018 |Broadcast

The owners WLNN-CD, Boone, North Carolina, will pay $2 million and relinquish the license under a consent decree that ends an investigation by the FCC Media and Wireless bureaus of licensee Carolina Rays. It's about it possibly submitting wrong information in its incentive auction application and transferring control of the Class A station without FCC OK, said Friday's order.