Stakeholders prod FCC for “down from 51” plan

It should tell you something that the industries that are expected to sell and buy spectrum when the incentive auctions take place agree on the way television channels should be repacked, and it should tell you a lot more that they are dismayed the FCC has decided to consider other methodologies. The companies that will be providing equipment for the project also agree with broadcaster (the ...

Seven Questions with Dave Schutz

About The Author: Editor-in-Chief Dave Seyler has spent the past 20 years with RBR-TVBR. He joined the company in 1992 after breaking into the broadcast trades with Broadcasting and Cable. He provides coverage of Washington, station transactions, general statistical reports and just about any other topic. He is learning to dodge hurricanes as the editor in residence at RBR-TVBR's Outer ...

Fired WROD GM broker comment on litigation

We just ran a story about Kevin Geddings, a terminated GM at Volusia Broadcasting's Oldies WROD-A/FM Daytona Beach, who is being sued by ...

Just-sold Class A slammed for rule violation

The FCC isn't saying that WJPW-CD Weirton WV didn't have its Children's Television Programming Reports in good order. But for 21 consecutive quarters, it apparently failed to file the reports with the Commission. The result is a hefty fine right as the station is being sold along with ten of its sister stations. The station is part of the Bruno Goodworth Network, anchored by ...

FCC opens window the MX translator deals

MX equals mutually exclusive, and out of all the applications for FM translators that have been sitting around for years in advance of the proceeding that is making room for additions to the LPFM service, there are a lot of them. The FCC is encouraging competing applicants to resolve the situation and avoid an auction for the contested translator CP. As a general rule, competing applicants are ...