FCC Faces Challenges On Coverage Changes

摘要

The FCC in early february quietly released a proposed update to the Longley-Rice model and TVStudy software the commission will use to calculate TV station coverage areas and interference potential as it repacks stations after the incentive auctions. The response has been anything but quiet, illustrating the difficulty of reconciling a host of players with different agendas to achieve the first-ever combined forward and reverse auction, with the future of broadcasting hanging in the balance.