FCC OK of TDS Channel Change of KOHD Now Effective

The FCC OK of TDS moving KOHD Bend, Oregon, to Channel 18 from 51 took effect Wednesday, said an agency notice in that day's Federal Register. The station owner had said the move would nix any interference in the lower 700 MHz A block adjacent to Channel 51 in the Portland market, said a Media Bureau order earlier this month (see 1505140046). It said the "expedited effective date" was because of the May 29 pre-auction incentive licensing deadline by when stations must license newly built facilities for them to be protected in the post-auction repacking (see 1505140044).