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GAO BEGINS 
LPTV & TV TRANSLATOR INCENTIVE AUCTION 
IMPACT STUDY 
FOR CONGRESS

THE GAO HAS STARTED TO 
CONDUCT INTERVIEWS WITH OUR INDUSTRY AND WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO ASSIST IN RECOMMENDING PARTICIPANTS

The long awaited start has begun by the US General Accountability Office, to conduct the ONLY incentive auction impact study.  This study, first recommended by our Coalition in the summer of 2014, was requested by House Energy & Communications Subcommittee House Representatives Barton (R-Texas), and Eshoo (D-CA) in the fall of 2014.   Here is the actual request from Congress.  You will note right away that this is NOT a study of all of the potential impacts, but those that specifically are a result of the original 2014 Incentive Auction Report & Order, and the 3rd LPTV Report and Order from late 2015.

Here are the basic questions which will be customized by the GAO for each participant, and as they were drafted by House members Barton and Eshoo:

"We ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the impacts of the incentive auction on LPTV stations and TV Translator stations, as well as their viewers.
 
Consistent with the FCC's Report and Order, 
 
>  Evaluate the impact of the incentive auction for both 84 MHz &  126 MHz

Within each of those two categories please provide the following information:
 
Total number of LPTV stations that provide:
>  Original programming
>  Broadcast local news and information
>  Racial and ethnic minority programming
 
Total TV translator stations that air local news and information programming of a full-power TV broadcast station.
 
A projection of the number of LPTV stations and TV translator stations that may lose either their current input or output channel as a result of the forward auction.
 
A projection of the number of such LPTV stations and TV translator stations that will subsequently be able to locate and operate on replacement channels after the auction.
 
The aggregate estimate of the costs of relocation, including:
>  New Equipment
>  Legal Services
>  Engineering services
>  Facility construction
>  Tower Services
 
A projection of the number of such LPTV stations and TV translator stations that will be unable to locate to or operate on replacement channels after the auction;
 
A projection of the number of viewers that will lose over-the-air access to at least one   such local LPTV station that provide local news and information, especially to underserved             communities of interest;

A projection of the number of viewers that will lose over-the-air access via such TV translator stations to at least one of the signals of the regional affiliates of the major commercial or noncommercial educational television broadcast networks
 
Recommendations to the FCC and Congress:

>  Ways to remedy adverse impacts of the auction on LPTV and TV translator stations

>  Ways to remedy adverse impacts of the auction on viewers



COALITION COMMENTARY
To obtain as broad a sample of industry concerns and potential impacts, we will be running some surveys in the next few weeks, and we hope you all will participate.  We currently need as many woman-owned, multi-cultural, and local news participants. Also, if you are one of the 69 Class-A stations which did not receive opening bids from the FCC, we want to talk with you also.  So step up and be heard!  If you represent one of the groups above please contact me asap.

 


FREE & PAID LISTINGS FOR:
  • STATION GROUPS 
  • ENGINEERS
  • LAWYERS
  • PROGRAMMING NETWORKS 
  • EQUIPMENT VENDORS
  • TOWER OPERATORS
  • INSURANCE

Free TV "take over" explained by 
Greg Bodan, Dr Randy Weiss and Perry Atkinson


COALITION COMMENTARY
Quality show, both in production values and presenters.  Covers the basics of the potential impacts on LPTV and translators, with special emphasis of how limiting or silencing local free TV, specifically from a  religious broadcaster experience and perspective.   TheDove in Medford Oregon, is within the Congressional District which Subcommittee Chairman Walden represents.  Make sure to alert us to any similar shows you all might be doing.

"THE COUNTY SEAT"
A SPECIAL ABOUT THE UTAH TV TRANSLATOR SYSTEM

Published on Jan 8, 2016
We are starting our show in our edit bay instead of the studio to demonstrate that there are many steps that we go through to take the show from creation to your TV set. One of the last and most important steps is actually broadcasting it from the transmitter to your house. That is the topic of our show today as there may be some changes that interrupt that process to many Utahans.


LPTV AND TV TRANSLATORS IN UTAH
NOTE THE GREEN LINES AS THEY ARE THE PEA'S
THE PARTIAL ECONOMIC AREAS WHICH ARE THE "PRODUCT" OF THE AUCTION, AND HOW WE WILL BE "REGULATED" POST-AUCTION


IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE APRIL NAB SHOW IN LAS VEGAS 
PLAN TO STOP BY AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT 
FOR LPTV AND TV TRANSLATORS!  

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LAST YEAR WE HAD OVER 300 PEOPLE ATTEND, AND 
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NETWORKS, AND LICENSEES.


 

CTIA: 10 MHz MEANS $3.1B FOR THE ECONOMY - The wireless industry's largest lobbying group is out with new data today aimed at quantifying what freeing up spectrum means for the U.S. economy. For every 10 MHz made available, 100,000 new jobs are created and the nation's gross domestic product grows by $3.1 billion, according to a Recon Analytics study. The report also suggests government revenue goes up $500 million and wireless provider revenue jumps by $2.6 billion. The study's release coincides with the opening of the application window for wireless and other telecom companies hoping to participate in the FCC's forward auction. The report "provides an important reminder of the power of the wireless industry to help drive economic growth and recovery," CTIA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker said in a statement.



If you would like to be part of our collective effort to make sure LPTV and TV translators are treated fairly in the Incentive Auction and channel repacking JOIN US today!


Mike Gravino
Director
LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition
(202) 604-0747
lptvcoalition@gmail.com
http://www.lptvcoalition.com