WKAR-TV, the noncommercial station licensed to Michigan State University, will not be putting spectrum in the incentive auction after all.
It will be sharing with another Michigan TV station, noncommercial WTVS, but expertise, not spectrum.
On Dec. 18, the board of trustees gave university president Lou Anna Simon the authority to put the station's spectrum into the auction, the deadline for which is Tuesday (Jan. 12).
Simon announced the news that that would not be the case at the same time the university announced it was partnering with Detroit Public TV (DPTV) to launch a new kids channel, part of an effort to expand its impact on the Detroit community in the area of pre-school education.
