Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions; Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context
spectrum-allocation · Federal Communications Commission · Published 2015-11-02 · Effective 2015-12-02 · 80 FR 67337
Document
Document number
2015-27738
Federal Register citation
80 FR 67337
CFR reference
47 CFR 1
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
spectrum-allocation
Publication date
2015-11-02
Effective date
2015-12-02
FCC docket
GN Docket No. 12-268
Abstract
In this document, the Commission refines the rules it adopted in the Incentive Auction Report and Order and the preceding Channel Sharing Report and Order to provide greater flexibility and certainty regarding channel sharing agreements ("CSAs"). Among other things, we modify our rules to allow broadcasters that relinquish rights in the incentive auction in order to channel share to enter into CSAs after the auction and, whether they enter into CSAs before or after the auction, to determine the length of their agreements.