FCC Announces Incentive Auction Eligible Facilities and Filing Deadline

The Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau announces each station facility eligible for protection in the repacking process and for relinquishment in the reverse auction (i.e., "eligible facility"). Additionally, the FCC announces that any licensee with a station listed in the Appendix must file an FCC Form 2100, Schedule 381 ("Pre-Auction Technical Certification Form"), through which it will verify and certify to the accuracy of the authorization and underlying Database Technical Information for each eligible facility by July 9, 2015.

Harry Cole with the CommLawBlog wrote, "To date, for many of us the spectrum auction has tended to be more imagined than concrete. Sure, we’ve read a lot about it and we know it’ll almost certainly have a major impact on all of us. But we haven’t yet been required to do anything (other than, maybe, prepare some rulemaking comments or attend an FCC webinar or meeting). But that has now changed, dramatically, with the release of the Eligibility Public Notice and the accompanying list of TV stations eligible for (a) protection in the post-auction repack and (b) relinquishment in the auction....From here on in, we'll all be sailing in largely uncharted waters."