LPTV Groups Pan FCC Incentive Auction Moves

The FCC needs to fully disclose the impact of the incentive auction on low-power TV and translators, said Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance Executive Director Louis Libin in a news release. “Either the FCC doesn't know the impact to LPTV and Translator stations or they are hiding the fact that an entire industry that our country depends on will be largely wiped out,” ATBA said Thursday. That day's FCC meeting showed that large companies and “their pseudo public-interest groups” have undue influence at the commission, emailed LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition Director Mike Gravino in an email, calling the meeting “internet-age industrial policy at its worse."