Incentive Auction Roadshow Starts Feb. 9

The FCC Incentive Auction Task Force will take its “roadshow” outreach efforts to broadcasters to Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee between February and May, it said in a public notice Wednesday. The first session will be in Philadelphia Feb. 9. Subsequent locations will be announced in future public notices, Task Force Chief Gary Epstein told us at an otherwise off-the-record FCBA event Wednesday. “Broadcasters in markets where we have not scheduled an information session are encouraged to attend the closest session,” said the PN. The information sessions will be in several cities in most states, including Nashville, New York and New Orleans. In each city, members of the Task Force and representatives of investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. will hold a general session on the auction and repacking, and also be available to meet with individual broadcasters confidentially, the PN said. The sessions are limited to broadcasters and their representatives, it said: “Presentations to Commission personnel directed to the merits or the outcome of the matters raised in the Comment Public Notice or other pending proceedings will require the filing of an ex parte notice, but any broadcaster that must make such a filing need not disclose its identity.”