LPTV Groups Meet Pai
The FCC should study the effect of the incentive auction and repacking on low-power TV and translators, enact policies to help those stations get through the repacking, and ask Congress for legislation to allow flexible use of LPTV spectrum and…
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an application window to upgrade to Class A status, said several LPTV group owners in a meeting Tuesday with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the Incentive Auction Task Force, Office of Engineering and Technology, and the Media Bureau, said the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition newsletter. An ex parte filing describing the meeting wasn't available Wednesday. The LPTV groups involved included Edge Spectrum, DTV America, Syncom Media, Prism TV, Cocola Broadcasting, Videohouse and Major Market Media. The coalition gave Pai and staffers a detailed inventory of the various LPTV industry segments, and how the auction and displacement process have affected them. Included were discussions about the future of the industry, a new Class A window and a path toward a "new, targeted flexible use future,” said coalition Director Mike Gravino in the newsletter. Gravino said it has been over a decade since the LPTV industry met with an FCC chair.