NAB and representatives from the public broadcasting community...

NAB and representatives from the public broadcasting community cautioned the FCC against adopting the draft order on the spectrum incentive auction. If the draft order is adopted as circulated, the auction will force “many hundreds of broadcasters to move and result in many stations serving fewer viewers than they do today,” NAB said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1lJ8B7W). The broadcasters urged Chairman Tom Wheeler “to do no harm to broadcasters who remain and their viewers,” it said. The commercial and public broadcasters also addressed the importance of consumer education, treatment of low-power TV stations, challenges of the auction for public and commercial broadcasters and other issues, NAB said. Representatives from Disney, NAB, PBS and other media companies met with Wheeler, staff from his office, Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake and other FCC staff, it said.