[opendtv] FCC Sets New Jersey and Delaware VHF CP Auction
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:56:27 -0500
If you read the story from 2009, on
http://www.commlawblog.com/tags/section-331/
you will note that "PMCM TV, LLC, a company privately owned by a group of radio
(and former TV) operators from New Jersey, has notified the Commission that
PMCM is agreeable to moving its two TV stations - KVNV, Ely, Nevada, and KJWY,
Jackson, Wyoming - to Middletown Township, New Jersey, and Wilmington,
Delaware, respectively."
And it's more interesting than that. They will be going East on VHF channels 4
and 5, but they will continue to operate back home too.
I'm not so keen on anything interesting to go low VHF, but wouldn't it be nice
to get some "new blood" infused in the OTA TV bands? Until all the talk about
spectrum grab for broadband, that's kind of what I was expecting.
Bert
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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/106502
FCC Sets New Jersey and Delaware VHF CP Auction
by Doug Lung, 09.16.2010.
The FCC has asked for comments on competitive bidding procedures for Auction
90. The auction is for two VHF commercial television station construction
permits, one on Channel 4 in Atlantic City, N.J. and the other on Channel 5 in
Seaford, Del.
The minimum opening bid and up-front payment has been set at $200,000 for each
CP.
The auction is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2011. Comments on bidding procedures are
due Sept. 30, 2010 and the deadline for reply comments is Oct. 15, 2010.
By auctioning these channels, the FCC satisfies a 1982 amendment to Section
331(a) of the Communications Act of 1934.
The amendment requires the Commission allocate commercial VHF channels so that
"no less than one such channel shall be allocated to each state, if technically
feasible."
CommLawBlog.com has more information on this amendment, as well as the attempt
by Nevada and Wyoming TV stations to use it to move into the New York and
Philadelphia markets. The article is available at Movin' On Up To The East Side.
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