FCC Should Convert LPTV Stations to Class A to Protect Them in Incentive Auction, Lotus Says
The incentive auction downgrades low-power TV from a secondary service to a tertiary service able to be displaced by both full-power and Class A stations, Lotus Communications said in comments filed in response to the incentive auction LPTV NPRM. “The…
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Commission should not unilaterally downgrade an entire class of licensee without redress or remedy,” Lotus said. The FCC should act to preserve LPTV stations that have public interest benefits by allowing them to convert to Class A status, Lotus said. The FCC “can extend the Class A protection set forth in the Spectrum Act to a discrete group of LPTV stations and the populations that they serve without imposing any undue procedural burdens on the Broadband Plan or negatively impacting its goals,” Lotus said.