NAB Challenges FCC Auction Public Notice

The National Association of Broadcasters has asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider some parts of its public notice on incentive auction procedures to reduce the potential interference to TV stations from wireless operators, and vice versa. In a petition for reconsideration filed with the commission, NAB says they are limited and "targeted" asks that "do not require revisiting fundamental aspects of the commission's auction design."

The targets are the FCC's 1) decision to repack some stations in the duplex gap, which NAB says fails to address the FCC's own argument for preserving the gap for wireless mics; 2) its standard for market variability and allowable impairment (interference) given recent "progress" in spectrum coordination with Canada and Mexico.