FCC Proposes Switching KOHD to Channel 18 From 51

The FCC proposed switching KOHD Bend, Oregon, to Channel 18 from 51, said a Media Bureau Video Division NPRM released Friday. Licensee TDS signed a voluntary relocation agreement with T-Mobile USA and said operation on Channel 18 would remove potential interference with authorized wireless operations in the lower 700 MHz A Block adjacent to Channel 51 in the Portland, Oregon, market, the bureau said. TDS requested expedited treatment of its channel change petition due to the upcoming pre-auction licensing deadline, which states facilities have to be constructed and licensed to be eligible for protection in the repacking process part of the TV incentive auction, the bureau said. Comments are due April 24, replies May 15 in docket 15-88.