Scoring based on pre-auction assessments could distort pricing...
Scoring based on pre-auction assessments could distort pricing at the “critical end-stages of the” incentive auction, said an anonymous group of auction-eligible broadcasters in an FCC ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1q9LvpU). The group met with staff…
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from the Incentive Auction Task Force, the Media Bureau and the Wireless Bureau last week. The FCC should release detailed information about any scoring mechanisms, as well as general information about likely auction pricing, the filing said. The broadcasters presented an option for estimating the possible funds available for broadcasters, using a “conservative estimate of forward auction revenue.” Their estimate projected $113 million in revenue per broadcaster, but the filing said the opening prices offered to broadcasters “should be much higher, allowing market forces to establish the actual market clearing prices, which could significantly exceed these values if forward auction revenue exceeds the estimated amount."