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The Association of Public Television Stations urged the FCC...

The Association of Public Television Stations urged the FCC to resolve issues of reallocating broadcast spectrum before it deals with a rulemaking request from NPR to end TV Channel 6 protections. Consideration of withdrawing protections for broadcasters on Channel 6…

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would be “premature, particularly in light of the commission’s contemplation of potential plans for spectrum reallocation ... to support wireless broadband services,” said an APTS opposition in RM-11579 posted Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1sqesCr). Three full-power public TV stations are on Channel 6, as are “dozens of translators licensed or utilized by public television stations,” it said. NPR petitioned the FCC for a rulemaking in 2009.