Public Broadcasters Challenge Broadcast Incentive Auction

In a petition for reconsideration filed by the Association for Public Television Stations, public broadcasters have asked the Federal Communications Commission to change its proposed rules for the broadcast incentive auction to insure that at least one noncommercial station remains in each market, or at least a noncom-reserved channel is left open. "The incentive auction rules as adopted by the FCC overturn more than six decades of FCC precedent reserving spectrum for noncommercial educational service," said PBS President Paula Kerger, CPB President Patricia Harrison and APTS President Patrick Butler.