Channel 6 LPTV Operator Feels Deadline Pressure
Channel 6 low-power TV broadcasters face “financial and logistical pressure” from the coming July 13 deadline for LPTV stations to go digital and FCC silence on an LP-6 proposal based on ATSC 3.0, said LP-6 broadcaster George Flinn in a…
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filing posted Thursday to docket 03-185. The deadline appears to require the channel 6 stations cease analog audio broadcasts -- receivable on FM radios -- that are their primary content, and stations propose offering the radio signal as an ancillary service and broadcasting video over ATSC 3.0 (see 2104300063). It isn’t clear if that idea will be acceptable to the Media Bureau. “Time is truly of the essence since FCC guidance is critical to the build-out path that must be taken (and the financial outlay which must be incurred),” Flinn said: The matter should get "expedited consideration.”