Vacant Channel NPRM Will Lead to 'Struggle,' Tannenwald Says

It's “unlikely” that any industry affected by the FCC vacant channel NPRM proposals (see 1506160043) “will be happy with them,” said Fletcher Heald broadcast attorney Peter Tannenwald in a blog post Tuesday. Low-power TV “stations are already discontent[ed] with the prospect of being squeezed out of business (as [Commissioner Ajit] Pai suggests is almost certain to happen); they are likely to object,” he said. Wireless mic users and others have also said sharing spectrum with other uses will impair their devices, Tannenwald said. “In other words, get ready for yet another incentive auction/repack-spawned struggle.”