NEXT GEN RANT




LPTV NEXTGEN EXPERIMENTAL TESTS APPROVED
PORTLAND OREGON DMA TO PIONEER THE USE OF MULTIPLE STATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY AIRING THE NEW ATSC 3.0 STANDARD


INDUSTRY VETERAN OPERATOR WatchTV, INC., 
A CHEERLEADER FOR LPTV FLEXIBLE  USE RIGHTS, 
INVESTS INTO THE LARGEST TEST TO DATE IN THE USA
OF THE NEXTGEN STANDARD

FOUR CLASS-A STATIONS TO EXPERIMENT WITH 
IMPLEMENTING THE NEW STANDARD TRANSMITTING FROM A COMMON SITE  IN A WIDE VARIETY OF USE CASES






from the FCC filings...






and here is some language  from the FCC authorization...




and a word from the licensee...


Greg Herman
President & CEO
WatchTV, Inc.

(503) 819-0500
watchtvinc@mac.com
"We are very pleased to have the opportunity to further explore the many outstanding capabilities of ATSC 3.0. Additionally, we are most grateful to the staff at the FCC, for their rapid assessment and approval of our experimental application.

As we have contended for many years, television broadcasters in the United States are in dire need of a new and technologically advanced television broadcasting system.

The world has passed us by in the last decade, and left us in a place where broadcast television spectrum is no longer relevant in the daily lives of average Americans.  This must change, and we believe that ATSC 3.0, Next Generation TV is an essential step in this evolution.  

Further, we are excited and encouraged to demonstrate the essential role Class A and LPTV broadcasters and their spectrum can play in the new ATSC 3.0 ecosystem.  We want to be first and we want to be the best we can be!"






The ATSC 3.0 NPRM will be voted next week at the monthly FCC Commissioners meeting. Here is a circulation draft of that NPRM,  courtesy  of the new FCC sunshine process recently implemented by new Chairman Pai.


 
                                                                                                                                                             



COALITION COMMENTARY
Ok folks, let the industry know today that Class A's, LPTV, and TV translators are racing towards ATSC 3.0 and the NextGen ecosystem, and have been for two years now.  When the display industry needed a transmitter to test 4K at CES they "had" to use an LPTV station in Vegas.  When a major station group promoting the first broadcast of 3.0 needed a transmitter they "had" to use an LPTV station, again in Vegas.  And when one of the top station groups needed to test the first 3.0 SFN between Baltimore and DC, they "had" to use an LPTV digital companion channel.  But this time, with the WatchTV test in Portland, the LPTV industry is taking charge of its' own fate and testing what it has as a competitive advantage - density of coverage.  

With 24 MHz of protected Class A spectrum aggregated together, meaning from 112-200 Mbps (mobile vs fixed) throughput with 3.0, this is one big data pipe for content and interactivity.  Density matters, and the primary stations will all have to play nice, cooperate, share resources and share revenues to come close to the throughput a spectrum cluster like WatchTV has assembled.  There are numerous remaining, not sold in the auction, not needed in the auction Class A clusters all over the country, and these we predict will all become hotbeds of innovation. Lot's of use cases, tech configs, and content plays to be investigated.  

And a big thanks to the Media Bureau and Video Division for approving this important test now, so that the data from it can be used later this year within the NextGen rulemaking.  










COALITION COMMENTARY
Now that we know that the auction will end - March 30th, some 42 days from now, we will all need to prepare for the mad dash down that 39 month++ process of displacement, filings, windows, and yes, a lot of your hard earned money.  Thanks Congress.  Here is the schedule of events...

Apr/May/Jun/July - the auction eligible survivors do their own repack thing, LPTV and translators find out if they are displaced, and the FCC prepares the list of available channels in each market which LPTV and translators may repack into.  If your CP is not displaced by either the auction (38-50) or the repack (2-36), then you can build at any time.

Aug/Sep (or so...) - FCC issues that list of available channels, and the displaced stations can conduct their engineering studies, and talk to each other. 

Oct-Dec (or so...) - When the filing window opens it is not competitive but cooperative, and again, licensees can talk among themselves to work out new channel assignments

here is the FCC announcement and links...












COALITION COMMENTARY
Ok folks, just one comment here or else I will get yanked off stage - both parties voted to keep LPTV out of the auction and force it to have to pay for its own displacement moves, a collective projected $1 billion unfunded mandate on us all.  Both sides did it to us.  And now, five years later, we do not even get a mention in the press release.  Why should we? Well here are some "real" facts - LPTV and TV translator licenses and new construction permits make up about 80% of the spectrum from 38-50 which was sold to the wireless bidders. And we get nothing from it except a ticket to go find another channel at our own cost, so we can provide the valuable national security EAS function.  But heck, we got a lot of spectrum rights left, so let's go find gold in those freq's.





 
FAB ET AL v. FCC
ORAL ARGUMENTS DELAYED DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICT


and the court said...








 

"I'm a fierce believer in the power of competitive, free markets to maximize consumer welfare.  And as FCC Chairman, I have no intention of putting my thumb on the scale for any segment of the communications industry.  Instead, I see it as my job to ensure a level regulatory playing field.  It then falls to American consumers to decide who wins and loses with their ears, their eyeballs, their clicks, and their wallets."

REMARKS OF FCC CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI





 










 






 





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WE TALKED WITH ONE OF THE AUTHORS AND LPTV IS NOT CONSIDERED AT ALL WITHIN THE REPORT - REALLY? - SO CAVEAT EMPTOR
 
 

RU A DISPLACED FULL POWER OR CLASS A LOOKING TO EXTRACT VALUE OUT OF YOUR LICENSE NOW THAT THE AUCTION IS OVER AND YOU DID NOT GET TO TASTE THAT PIE?  DID YOU NOT SELL ALL OF THE LICENSES YOU WANTED, AND NOW HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TIME AND HASSLE OF DISPLACEMENT AND STILL HAVE TO RUN A CLASS A WITHOUT CABLE CARRIAGE?  YOU SHOULD JOIN WITH THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND ARE FILING FOR....

lptvcoalition@gmail.com
(202) 604-0747







THE COALITION IS STILL COMPILING DISPLACEMENT MOVES IN EACH OF THE 210 TV MARKETS.  SO IF YOU FIND OUT YOU ARE DISPLACED, OR YOU ARE A CLASS A OR FULL POWER AND YOU KNOW YOUR NEW CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT, WELL HECK, SHARE IT WITH US.  YOU WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!

lptvcoalition@gmail.com




                
Very profitable LPTV in Houston
Market #8 + #4 Hispanic
Price Reduced To $2.5 million
Seller Financing Available

Las Vegas market
Beautiful OWNED studio building & tower 
$1.9 million

GEORGE KIMBLE
Kozacko Media Services
520-465-4302 -  TUCSON, AZ




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Mike Gravino
Director
LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition
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