Future LPTV Shifts Should Be Scrutinized, LMCC Says

Any relocations of low-power TV stations or future applications for new ones should be “scrutinized carefully for compliance” with FCC rules protecting land mobile operations, said the Land Mobile Communications Council in a letter to the Media Bureau Tuesday. It responded to comments from the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance in Communications Daily anticipating more flexibility for LPTV station moves (see 2112280050). LMCC said it doesn’t object to flexibility for LPTV but is concerned about possible interference: “A number of adjacent channel DTV stations on the current list of broadcast stations requiring protection from land mobile systems are closer than permitted” and “were granted without waiver.”