Noncommercial Stations Agree FCC Should Scrap Changes to Coverage Model

Noncommercial television broadcasters are on the same page with the National Association of Broadcasters when it comes to the Federal Communications Commission's proposed changes (the so-called Bulletin 69) to how the FCC calculates coverage areas and interference protections for the post incentive auction repacking, arguing that the changes would create "widespread uncertainty for stations and would make it difficult for public television stations to serve their mission of providing all Americans with important free, noncommercial television services." Like commercial broadcasters, they argue that the commission is bound by statute to use the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) methodology.