TV White Spaces Coveted By Broadcasters For NextGen TV

 The NAB urged the FCC to allow television stations to use TV White Spaces, where available, to help in the transition to Next Gen television transmission. The broadcast’s lobby’s gripe with the agency was in response to what NAB said were “erroneous arguments” made by the Open Technology Institute at New America.

NAB disputes the OTI assertion that the FCC’s 2016 Next Gen TV Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “did not request comment on whether or not to give broadcasters vacant channels for the transition to ATSC 3.0.” The broadcast association says the FCC directly asked in the NPRM: “should we consider allowing broadcasters to use vacant in-band channels remaining in a market after the incentive auction repack to serve as temporary host facilities for ATSC 1.0 or ATSC 3.0 programming by multiple broadcasters?”  Continue Reading