NAB's Smith Visits FCC Over Procedures Rulemaking
Assigning TV stations to the duplex gap is unnecessary and will prevent wireless microphone or unlicensed uses there in some markets, NAB President Gordon Smith told FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn and aides to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly in…
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meetings Monday, according to an ex parte filing. Smith also opposed the post-incentive auction band plan and market variability, the filing said. “The FCC should have learned its lesson from the fallout of the 700 MHz A block’s challenges due to its close proximity to TV channel 51. Instead, the Commission proposes to recreate those challenges, but on a much larger scale,” the filing said. The current draft procedures public notice also diminishes the effect of FCC negotiations with Canada and Mexico, the filing said. “In the event the Commission is able to conclude agreements with Canada and/or Mexico prior to the auction to reduce or eliminate foreign impairments, the Procedures PN would allow the Commission to replace these foreign impairments with new domestic impairments -- an unnecessary and unreasonable outcome,” NAB said.