FCC Auction Item Prep Creates More Bad Blood

摘要

According to multiple sources, FCC staffers have been briefing stakeholders, including broadcasters, wireless carriers and public interest groups, on the outlines of the agency's incentive auction framework, and some broadcasters will likely be keeping their lawyers on speed-dial. The item is said to be a work in progress, but it is probably pretty close to the final version. That the FCC under chairman Tom Wheeler would outline the draft item even before it was circulated to the other commissioners-even though he did brief those commissioners-was described as an unprecedented transparency-related move according to one stakeholder. But it was, however, what the transparency revealed that troubled broadcasters.