FCC Shouldn't Set Retroactive Displacement Deadline for LPTV, Gray Says

The FCC shouldn’t impose a deadline for low-power TV displacement applications that is retroactive or becomes effective on the day it's announced, Gray told Commissioner Mike O’Rielly and Commissioner Ajit Pai’s aide Matthew Berry in separate meetings Wednesday and Thursday, according to an ex parte filing. “Licensees must be given sufficient warning of this crucial deadline to allow them to complete construction and license permitted facilities.” Such a deadline should be set six months in the future, it said. “This will give permittees with either partially built stations or concrete plans to build a station sufficient time to complete construction and license the facility.”