The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new website promoting its planned spectrum incentive auction.
The website is part of the FCC’s Learn Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now, or “LEARN” outreach program. The site was billed as “a one-stop information resource for incentive auction stakeholders, particularly the nation’s broadcasters”.
The LEARN site features an FCC Staff Summary of the incentive auction plan. Though participation is voluntary, the plan presupposes the reclamation of 20 TV channels, or 120 MHz of TV spectrum. TV stations can either relinquish their licenses completely, give up a portion of their spectrum and/or share a 6 MHz assignment with another TV station. The law requires that no TV station with a UHF license be made to relocate into the VHF spectrum at Chs. 2-13, but stations can volunteer to do so.
