FCC has 'Inadequate' Data on LPTV, Says LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition

The FCC’s data and research on the low-power TV industry is “inadequate,” LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition Director Michael Gravino told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and her staff at a meeting Tuesday, according to an ex parte filing in docket 12-268. Gravino also said the FCC Video Division has a “vendetta” against the LPTV industry, pointing to a “huge back-log” of application approvals and a lack of data justifying policy decisions as evidence. Gravino also spoke to Clyburn about the “lack of disclosure and data by the Incentive Auction Task Force related to researching the economic cost benefits of LPTV as auction eligible entities,” the filing said.