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LPTV INDUSTRY NEWS- WEDNESDAY - MARCH 11TH, 2015 - AM EDITION
BREAKING LATE WEDNESDAY....
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GRAY TELEVISION SUBMITS PROPOSAL TO FCC TO ESTABLISH NEW CLASS-A WINDOW FOR PRIORITY PROTECTIONS IN POST-AUCTION REPACKING
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Coalition seeks to understand how this proposal would affect you and your LPTV operations and investment. With many major market LPTV stations under multi-year contracts for channel leasing, establishing and operating as a Class-A would be very hard to do by the end of 2015. And do we want to pit one LPTV vs another as to which has the most relevant content in the public interest? Please review and take our quick survey so we can better understand your opinion.
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WE NEED YOUR OPINION!
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For those of you unfamiliar with Gray TV,
check out their latest corporate promo to see what happens
when LPTV licensees are also major network affiliates
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COALITION OPINION:
We welcome this initiative from Gray TV since it shows that one of the major LPTV licensee, and the one with what is surely the largest number of big four network affiliates, is thinking of how to continue their public service obligations post-auction. Hats off to them for that. One of the big secrets in the Incentive Auction process is that there will be a tremendous loss of broadcast television public service obligations due to the loss of many ethnic and independent stations.
While we oppose any proposal which enriches one LPTV party over the other, or which disadvantages one over the other, we certainly are open to learning more, and that is why we need you to take the survey. The proposal (and that of
DTV America) are well reasoned, have a sound legal basis, but could be viewed as self-serving - but heck, so is this newsletter!
Somewhere in this conversation is a solution for getting all LPTV channels in the repack, and earning a sense of permanence. Many of us have been tossing in the wind at the mercy of the legislative and rule making process far too long. But we need to be careful in how this type of proposal could effect all LPTV being found channels in the repack by the FCC. We need to avoid a scenario that the folks with the biggest checkbooks, and fastest filing engineers win the day. This should not be a race or free-for-all for spectrum grabbing, nor a Black Friday sale at the local shopping mall. Which we do not think the Gray TV or DTV America proposals are. We just want to make sure the next displacement is our last one for a while so we can get back to building a business.
The FCC has already said they intend on an orderly process of first conducting an LPTV optimization modeling to assign us all channels, and then allow us to modify. Let's make it happen in a way that we all win, and there are no losers, no matter what your content is.
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The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) announced today the LPTV Day afternoon schedule was completed. This is for their Monday afternoon, April 13th event at the NAB Show. It follows their morning session with FCC Media Bureau Chief William Lake, and then the Coalition's LPTV Lunch. This afternoon event will be held in N232.
1:30 pm What everyone ought to know about Filter Tuning - Try your hand at it Moderator: Perry Priestley, Anywave Presenter: Dan Fallon, Dielectric
2:00 pm No Must Carry? Friending Your Local Cable Company Moderator: Irwin Podhajser, DTV America Presenter: Scott Barbee, Sterling BCG; Tom Baer, Sterling BCG
2:30 pm Adding a Multicast Extension to the Internet. Broadcasting in a 21st Century Context Moderator: Dr. Randy Weiss, EICB-TV Presenter: Vern Fotheringham
3:00 pm Master Control - Remote and Onsite Hosted Options on a Budget Moderator: Rod Payne, CFNT Panelists: Dr. Lucas Fry, OMC; Mark Finney, Greenville Media; Chris James, Watchmen Broadcasting 3:30 pm Bringing the Viewer Back to Broadcast TV without the TV Moderator: Gary Cocola, Cocola Broadcasting Presenter: Luc Tamasino, Tablet TV
4:00 pm Exploring the Art of the Possible: The future of LPTV spectrum Moderator: Louis Libin, ATBA Presenter: Greg Herman, SpectrumEvolution.org The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition is a proud Gold Sponsor of LPTV Day!
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COALITION MEMBERSHIP
Free Membership For All LPTV Licensees!
So how can we offer a free membership and still get all of this work done here in DC? Well, we provide a lot of services which LPTV and TV translator licensees need from filings into the FCC proceedings, the DMA Repacking Studies, arrange contracts for carrying networks on your channels, and most importantly, we take on direct assignments for advocacy from licensees.
We also get a lot of direct support for our own specific research projects which are funded to help the entire industry. And these have become the best of what we have been able to offer for the defense of LPTV in the Incentive Auction process.
No one interest group controls us, and we work for the best interests of the many. As LPTV licensees, operators, and investors, we know what you are going through and your challenges. Like we say...
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Mike Gravino
Director
LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition
(202) 604-0747
http://www.lptvcoalition.com
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