FCC's H-Block Decisions Far From Ordinary, NTCH Tells Court
That Auction 96 procedures were based on an undisclosed deal between the FCC and Dish Network points to the agency's H-block license decisions being anything but ordinary, appellant NTCH said in a docket 18-1241 reply brief (in Pacer) Wednesday with…
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the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It said Dish's $1.56 billion bidding commitment, and the FCC-granted waivers in response, were "entirely unprecedented" and went against basic tenets of administrative law. It said the agency and Dish argue that reversing the Auction 96 results would strand millions of dollars of investments the satellite-TV company has made, but the MVPD admitted it made little progress in network facility construction. The regulator and counsel for appellee intervenor Dish didn't comment.