FCC Standing By Its Auction Framework

摘要

The fcc is signaling it will stick with its original framework for the broadcast incentive auction, denying requested changes by broadcasters and others and setting the stage for possible further court challenges. According to sources familiar with the draft report and order circulating at the FCC on its incentive auction framework, the commission has indicated that it will keep with a variable band plan-potentially freeing up different amounts of spectrum in different markets; will use the updated OET-69 methodology/data for gauging interference and determining coverage areas for TV stations after the auction; will hold to a 39-month hard date for TV stations to move to new channels after the auction; will not necessarily resolve international coordination issues with Mexico and Canada before the auction; and will cap moving costs at $1.75 billion.