Below is an article which appeared last Friday in the venerable
Communications Daily. If you get it, then you may have already seen this. We would have lead with it in Friday's newsletter, but the breaking news on the Incentive Auction opening bid prices and how that affected the Class-A licenses took precedent.
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FROM WARREN COMMUNICATIONS NEWS
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from the Coalition presentation
NOTE: Since the FCC just came out on Friday with the new opening
bid prices,
this chart above is being reworked.
NOTE: If the buyback does not happen when described above, more than 5000 LPTV
and TV translator licenses and permits will be filing for new permit applications. This will severely impact the TV white space industry, and the unlicensed economy.
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Later this week, in Part Two of this series, we will share the most recent
version of our bill which does not use an auction to generate revenues.