The FCC should allow for flexibility in spectrum sharing agreements among stations that want tonparticipate in the incentive spectrum auction, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcastersn(NABOB) told FCC officials, an ex parte notice shows. Stations that share spectrum should have thenflexibility to use different amounts of spectrum at different times, the notice said (http://xrl.us/bobd29).n"This would allow each licensee to transmit HD programming during times when the other licenseenagreed to only do SD programming," it said. The group also described a proposed minority investmentnfund to assist minority station owners who participate in the auction to "invest in other broadcast facilities,"nit said. "NABOB is proposing to the large telecommunications companies, which are most likely tonbe the major bidders in the forward auction, that they create an investment fund that could be utilized bynminority entrepreneurs turning in spectrum in the reverse auction," it said.
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