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May 14th, 2014 - Friday News Flash

Tomorrow the FCC Commissioners will vote on the

Incentive Spectrum Auction Rule Making. We will be sending

out our analysis later that afternoon.

COALITION WALKS WITH "OCCUPYTHEFCC" PROTESTERS

Coalition Director Mike Gravino took the "Save LPTV" message to the front door of the FCC in conjunction with the Net Neutrality protesters. See the press coverage below.

SAVE LPTV Protest Joins OccupyTheFCC Protest

OCCUPYTHEFCC PROTEST

Check out what the Net Neutrality protesters are up to in DC.

http://www.occupythefcc.com/

EVEN PRESTON PADDEN GOT INVOLVED!

Preston's Expanding Opportunities For Broadcasters did their own protest today!

Pro-auction Groups Protests

FCC COMMISSIONERS VOTE TOMORROW ON AUCTION RULE MAKING

You can watch it live on the FCC site, or later on-demand. The auction rule making will be one of three major items on the agenda, and we will have to fight the protesters to get in early. Look for a report later in the day.

FCC Live Video Page

While we anticipate that LPTV will have its own Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making later this summer, we will be looking at the National Band Plan to see how many LPTV will be displaced in the process. This could turn into $100's of millions of unfunded channel relocation expenses. We also will be looking at the size of the unlicensed guard bands to see if we need to appeal it.

PREPARING YOURSELF FOR NEXT WEEKS SPECTRUM AUCTION REPORT AND ORDER

Tomorrow, May 15th, the FCC Commissioners are scheduled to vote on the Report and Order which approves many of the rules for the spectrum auction in 2015. The Coalition will be "in the room", but you need to prepare now...

Even if you are not planning on being in DC in your best dress suit and fancy tie to attend the FCC Commissioners May Open Meeting, fight the long lines of lawyers and lobbyists through the security check, and jockey for one of the few seats there are in the room, the Coalition will be there for you. Of course you can always watch the entire event free on-line at the FCC Live webpage.

Don't worry, be happy, we will send you all of the info and links before hand and our expert analysis afterwards. But we strongly suggest you get yourself up to speed with a few reading assignments first:

Coalition website RESOURCES page

Here you will find all kinds of info, the Spectrum Auction Act, the proposed National Rule Making document, and lots of other info including the complete LPTV rules.

The National Rule Making (NPRM) document

This is the document we have been responding to for over 18 months now, which spells out what, how, when, by which authority, etc. the FCC will deal with the auction.

Coalition LPTV NPRM Slide Deck

Back last August the Coalition put this slide deck together to answer all of the NPRM questions about LPTV. Of course since then our positions have changed as we did more research, and had more than 20 meetings with FCC staff. But it is a good overview for next week's event.

The Key FCC Staff Recommendations for LPTV

These are the staff recommendations shared with the Coalition and audience during the NAB Show Info-session we hosted with FCC Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake. You can use it like a check-list to see which issues we win on during the meeting, although they may not get to this level of detail.

And now for the membership and sales pitch. Membership is free for all LPTV and TX licensees and all we ask is to list your call-signs and organization name on the website. Our biggest advantage is that operate in the sunshine, and we do have strength in numbers. Membership is only $100 for Class-A stations which are auction eligible, same for the full-powers, vendors, and industry partners. But we do count on members chipping in for projects they want to support.

We do original research, create and promote LPTV advocacy programs (like our NAB Show event), and of course we bang on the doors of the FCC and Congress. It does take funding, but we want you to more than anything else get involved with your Congressional delegation at the local and state level. We can help you do that very effectively. We also can work with your legal counsel to help state your case at the FCC. And we can help you with your financial counsel to value your current and future LPTV operations.

For vendors we can offer what can be one of the best sponsorship deals around.

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Sincerely,

Mike Gravino

Director

LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition

(202) 604-0747

lptvcoalition@gmail.com

http://www.lptvcoalition.com