FCC Should Clarify Future of Channel 6 LPTV Signals, Say LPTV Broadcasters
Confirm digital low-power TV broadcasters will be allowed to operate analog FM “radio type services” on an ancillary basis, said LPTV broadcasters in meetings last week with aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, aides to Commissioners Brendan Carr, Mike O'Rielly…
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and Jessica Rosenworcel, and Media Bureau staff, per a filing Monday in docket 03-185. "Preserve the capability of LPTV stations operating on channel 6 to continue broadcasting an aural signal that can be received on frequency 87.7 FM following the LPTV digital transition” in June 2021, said Prism TV, Venture Technologies, Weigel Broadcasting and others. LPTV broadcasters use an analog signal on 87.7 FM and channel 6 to provide content that's mainly geared toward ethnic minorities and “groups unable to find a home elsewhere on the FM dial,” they said. The bureau sought comment in 2014 on whether LPTV stations would be allowed to continue broadcasting an analog signal that can be heard on 87.7 FM after the digital transition, but never issued a decision. Comments were “near unanimously” in favor of allowing the LPTV broadcast, with NPR the only opposition, the LPTV interests said. "Act quickly or else this vital service will be lost once Channel 6 stations end analog operations.”