System/Policy
PBS, T-Mobile collaborate to save TV translators
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The wireless carrier and a team from PBS are working under tight deadlines to find new homes for public TV translators that are being displaced by the FCC’s repack of TV channels.
System/Policy
International broadcaster MHz Networks ends search for new channel in D.C. area, announces signoff
By 
Mike Janssen, Digital Editor |
The owner of MHz Networks’ WNVC and WNVT sold the stations’ spectrum in last year’s FCC auction.
System/Policy
Repack costs prompt Texas licensee to eliminate public TV station
By 
Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
PBS and America’s Public Television Stations warn that more stations could follow suit.
System/Policy
Oregon stations attest to TV repack’s ‘detrimental effect’ on radio
By 
Tyler Falk, Reporter |
The repack work “threatens the survival of our public radio service as well as the health of our cultural community and economy,” said All Classical Portland CEO Suzanne Nance.
System/Policy
San Francisco’s KMTP pursues channel-share agreement to stay on air
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The Minority Television Project is in talks with Poquito Mas Communications LLC.
Quick Takes
House committee authorizes additional funding for repack, including radio costs
By 
April Simpson, Former Associate Editor |
The bill would provide the FCC with an additional $322 million per year in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.
System/Policy
PBS39 adds programming with donation of WYBE license
By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
The stations will share PBS39’s spectrum starting Jan. 5 until the FCC approves the license transfer.
System/Policy
WUSF donates license to WEDU to keep programs on air in Tampa
By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
The agreement will keep the “zombie license” alive.
Quick Takes
LocusPoint sues to stop sale of California public TV station
By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
A spokesperson for KCSM’s licensee called the complaint “frivolous.”
Quick Takes
Chicago station considers channel-share after selling spectrum in auction
By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
WYCC would continue to broadcast by sharing spectrum with WTTW.