More Steps Toward TV Band Clearing

The thinning of the ranks of Class A TV stations continues. We reported recently that the Federal Communications Commission has started to propose the downgrading of a number of Class A television stations to LPTV status, presumably to make room for the almighty broadband to take over TV spectrum. The stations targeted in the first round of that effort had (a) failed to file Children’s TV Reports and (b) failed to respond to FCC’s inquiries about the whereabouts of those reports. Another 16 Class A’s now face the prospect of being demoted to LPTV status.