ATBA Calls for LPTV Improvements
The FCC should end its freeze on major changes for low-power TV stations and loosen restrictions on power levels, said the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance in a filing Wednesday documenting an ex parte meeting Monday with Erin Boone, acting Media…
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Bureau chief and senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. “The time is ripe to allow LPTV stations to improve the service they provide to local communities,” the filing said. The agency shouldn’t impose additional recordkeeping requirements on LPTV stations proposed in an NPRM last year, the alliance said (see 2406060028). “The ATBA encouraged the FCC to formally terminate this proceeding.” It also expressed support for the NAB’s ATSC 3.0 transition plan and urged the FCC to look into providing displacement protection for LPTV stations that provide “local services.”