The FCC should ensure that translators are protected...

The FCC should ensure that translators are protected during the post-incentive auction repacking process, said NAB in an ex parte filing Friday (http://bit.ly/1jIOMKI). Not doing so would reduce the coverage area of full-power stations, violating the spectrum act’s directive that the commission “make all reasonable efforts” to preserve broadcaster coverage area in the auction, NAB said. “Failure to consider translators would be contrary to the plain text of the Spectrum Act and fifty years of Congressional and Commission policy,” NAB said. “This result would be arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law."