• Multichannel News, Sunday, July 11, 2010 10:54 PM

Lonna Thompson, interim CEO and general counsel of the Association of Public Television Stations, met with Federal Communications Commission officials to remind them of the value of leaving spectrum in the hands of the noncommercial stations she represents.

Smaller commercial and noncommercial stations in big markets are among those expected to be targeted with an FCC offer to give up some or all of their broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband in exchange for a payout when that spectrum is re-auctioned. Congress thinks enough of the value of noncommercial HD service to make satellite carriage of those signals on an advanced timetable part of its recently passed satellite license re-authorization bill.

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