FCC Requests Comments on WJAR-TV Channel Substitution

The FCC Media Bureau Video Division requested comments on an NPRM in docket 15-98 to substitute Channel 50 for Channel 51 for station WJAR-TV Providence, Rhode Island. The channel substitution would serve the public interest and remove interference with a wireless licensee in the Lower 700 MHz A-Block adjacent to Channel 51 in the Providence, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Boston TV markets, WJAR said. It would also allow the A-Block licensee to fully utilize spectrum adjacent to Channel 51, which was acquired in auction 71, WJAR said. Comments are due May 12, replies May 26.