WUSF, the public broadcaster in Tampa, Fla., will go dark at the end of Oct. 15, following the sale of its broadcast license in the FCC spectrum incentive auction, the station said today. The public broadcaster will continue its radio transmissions, it said. In addition to WUSF TV, WUSF Public Media operates the region’s NPR […]
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Rohde & Schwarz Adds Personnel To Assist In Repack
Devin Wickham, Don Backus and Faizal Iqbal have joined Rohde & Schwarz to assist the company in supporting new and existing customers as they move to new channels to fulfill their FCC spectrum repack obligations. Wickham and Iqbal, who joined the company in June and July, respectively, are application engineers focused on field service and […]
Edward Czarnecki Appointed To IPAWS Subcommittee
Edward Czarnecki, senior director for strategic and government affairs at Monroe Electronics has been appointed to serve on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Advisory Council IPAWS subcommittee, the company announced. Czarnecki will serve as a special government employee providing expertise on a wide range of emergency information capabilities, according to Monroe Electronics. Earlier in […]
T-Mobile Offers To Defray Certain LPTV Relocation Costs
T-Mobile is offering to help TV translator and LPTV operators that must change channel assignments twice due to its rapid 600 MHz wireless deployment with their relocation-associated expenses, the company said in an ex parte communications sent to the FCC today. “The potential for T-Mobile’s broadband deployment to outpace the anticipated timing of the FCC’s […]
Let’s Hope Reasonable FCC Response On LMS Crash Extends To Repack Deadline
I was only five years old when the final piece of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was hoisted into place some 630 feet above the ground below. But I remember the iron workers building the Arch spayed water onto the south leg to cool it off. Otherwise, thermal expansion of the stainless steel leg […]
NAB Tells FCC White Space Effort Is A Bust
NAB called out Microsoft today for continuing to advocate for an unused TV channel to be reserved nationwide for unlicensed TV-band white space device use, in an ex parte letter submitted today to the FCC. Microsoft has a decade-long history of underdelivering on its vision for leveraging unused TV channels to enable new wireless services, NAB […]
Online Service Addresses DTV Medical Notification
Broadcasters affected by the spectrum repack must notify medical facilities of their new channel assignments to avoid interfering with medical telemetry devices as required by the FCC. To address this requirement, DTVNotification.com has setup an online server for digital TV stations that provides the necessary medical notifications for stations, according to Dennis Wallace, managing partner in […]
List Of Stations Changing Channel Assignments In Repack
No doubt many in the TV industry are poring over yesterday’s FCC public notice and associated documents wrapping up the incentive auction and officially starting the 39-month clock to complete the TV spectrum repack. Count me among those who are a bit bleary-eyed after focusing on one such document: “Final Television Channel Assignment Information Related […]
FCC Adoption of Next-Gen TV NPRM Garners Industry Praise
The FCC’s unanimous approval today of a notice of proposed rulemaking to implement ATSC 3.0 has drawn industry kudos. The AWARN Alliance issued a statement this morning praising the action. “We … appreciate Chairman [Ajit] Pai and Commissioner [Mignon] Clyburn acknowledging advanced alerting as one of the key benefits of the new standard,” said John […]
FCC’s Next-Gen TV Rulemaking Notice Draws Praise
The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to authorize next-generation television released today is garnering favorable reaction from both the Advanced Television Systems Committee and a coalition of major broadcast groups that has worked to advance the ATSC 3.0 standard. A statement released this morning by ATSC President Mark Richer calls the NPRM “another important step […]