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FCC "temporarily" freezes Channel 51 applications

This is yet another example of the FCC's increasingly erratic and craven behavior in the wake of the NBP. Applications for channel 51 are frozen, but licensed stations on 51 can continue to broadcast while being encouraged to vacate the channel.

Here is the language of the notice:

"To facilitate the clearing of channel 51, however, we hereby lift the current freeze as applied to, and will accept, petitions for rulemaking filed by full power television stations seeking to relocate from channel 51 pursuant to a voluntary relocation agreement."

It doesn't take a genius to figure that this "temporary" freeze is just a precursor to removing channel 51 from the TV band. We still don't have any predictive models from the FCC on what a re-packed TV band will look like. But that isn't stopping them. They'll get their spectrum any way they can--even if it means doing it one channel at a time.
 
I'm beginning to feel like TV is being treated almost as great by our goverment as the Native Americans were treated that were part of the Civilized Tribes. They keep moving TV broadcasters around with the promise that this will be the last time they steal their property from them, but alas it's far from overwith. They steal and steal and steal and steal.... It's time we call them out for what they are. They are THIEVES. They can play it off all the want to, but there's percious little difference between what they do and what a common house robber does. They take what doesn't belong to them and sell it off for money when they have no rights to do so.
 
Read one of those Op-Ed pieces (written by a Wireless Industry Shill) yesterday, that said TV Broadcasters MUST give up our spectrum, or the world economy will collapse.

BTW...check out the back page of this month's "Broadcast Engineering" magazine. The article is, "Are you fighting the spectrum grab? If not, why not?":

"It is dumbfounding to see the lack of meaningful effort at engaging the public about this threat to the broadcast community".
 
kenglish said:
Read one of those Op-Ed pieces (written by a Wireless Industry Shill) yesterday, that said TV Broadcasters MUST give up our spectrum, or the world economy will collapse.
Click to expand...

FWIW, they've been saying that for decades -- as soon as the very first cable systems went in in the early 1950s, we began to see two-way interests calling for the elimination of TV transmitters & their replacement by cable.
 
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