The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition cited three potential areas...

The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition cited three potential areas of appeal on the broadcast spectrum incentive auction. If the FCC chooses not to include low-power TV in the auction, it should be obligated to provide a substantial economic analysis of the impacts on LPTV licensees left out of the auction, “the economic impacts of LPTV in the auction, and the impact on the auction and repacking on the LPTV industry,” the coalition said in an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1mJL6Ys). LPTV broadcasters also can appeal if the guard bands between the new TV core and new mobile broadband services don’t stay within the intent of the Spectrum Act, and are sized based on “a political accommodation for the unlicensed advocates’ desire for a specific level or service,” it said. Another cause for appeal is erosion or incursion into the LPTV spectrum usage rights, it said. The filing pertains to a meeting with staff from the FCC Office of General Counsel.