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
Repack costs prompt Texas licensee to eliminate public TV station
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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
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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
Lawmakers hear that pubcasters need additional $50M for auction repack
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The financial risk from repack work “is almost existential” to public broadcasting, APTS President Pat Butler said.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Cutting locks at Pacifica; concerns about repacking interference
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• A new round of unrest is brewing at Pacifica. Current reported last week on the radio network’s board voting to oust executive director Summer Reese and this week on Reese’s defiance of the vote. An LA Weekly feature offers more details, including Reese removing a padlock from the doors of the network’s offices with bolt cutters and reading Bible passages to staff. The article recaps the history of the network and includes comments from former employees of Pacifica’s KPFK in Los Angeles. It’s reminiscent of the Village Voice’s September feature on New York’s WBAI (the Voice Media Group owns both publications). • PBS, CPB and APTS have joined the National Association of Broadcasters and commercial networks to warn the FCC about potential interference between TVs and wireless devices after spectrum repacking.
System/Policy
Technical hurdles, unknown costs loom in spectrum repacking
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As the FCC prepares to reshuffle the layout of the nation’s television spectrum for the repacking process, public broadcasters are girding for some difficult choices as they consider how to navigate a complex and potentially expensive transition.