Public TV Shouldn't Pay FCC Ancillary Services Fee: APTS, PBS
Public TV stations should be exempt from paying fees on datacasting revenue, said America's Public Television Stations and PBS in a Friday call with FCC Media Bureau staff, per a filing Monday. The statutory requirement to collect fees is related…
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to commercial uses, the groups said. “When the revenue is used to support noncommercial services that are in the public interest, there is no need to 'recover' anything else for the public,” the stakeholders said. “Public television stations are providing remote learning opportunities through broadcast datacasting to provide educational content to student households that lack broadband connectivity.” Revenue supporting noncommercial educational activities “would not result in any unjust enrichment,” said APTS and PBS.