FCC Finalizes Catalog of Broadcasters' Reimbursable Expenses
The catalog of potential costs that will be incurred by broadcasters in the repacking has been finalized, said the FCC Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau in a public notice Thursday. The catalog of reimbursable expenses is largely unchanged…
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from the version originally proposed by the FCC, though it will include prices annually indexed to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index, the PN said. The IATF and Media Bureau rejected several requests from broadcasters for additional expenses to be added to the catalog. “We do not believe it is necessary to add these specific items to the Catalog because, to the extent that stations reasonably incur such expenses, they can be claimed within the appropriate cost categories or on the catch-all 'Other' line in the Reimbursement Form that is available for expenses not listed within a particular category,” the PN said. The agency also rejected requests for the possible prices of items to be increased, the PN said. Reimbursements for costs that are over the catalog's predictions are still reimbursable, but broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors will have to justify why they went over, the PN said.