Reimbursement Funds Shouldn't Prioritize TV Over FM, NPR Says
The FCC shouldn’t prioritize payment of FY 2019 reimbursement funds to full-power, Class As and MVPDs over FM stations, said NPR in meetings last week with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, it filed, posted Monday in…
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docket 18-119. A “better approach” would be to prioritize primary services such as full-power TV and FM over secondary services such as low-power TV and translators, NPR said. Alternatively, wait for more information about incurred costs, NPR said. The public radio programmer opposes requiring a set number of listener affidavits for complaints about translator interference, and opposes a proposed 54 dBu contour limit on protections from such interference. Many NPR-affiliated stations have listeners outside that contour, it said: Cutting off stations from their listeners “is especially concerning to public radio stations because they rely on listener donations.”