State Broadcasters to Senate: Only One Incentive Auction

An alliance of state broadcast associations has told Senate leaders that the Federal Communications Commission should only be allowed to hold a single incentive auction for reclaimed broadcast spectrum, and that stations not participating in the auction should not lose any interference protections or coverage area for their signals. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations, they praised the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), respectively, for coming up with a "solid framework for voluntary incentive auctions."