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In comments filed Wednesday, the network said eligible expenses proposed by the FCC “should be considered an initial provisional list of common anticipated expenses rather than a definitive catalog of all eligible reimbursable expenses.”
Local stations “have limited financial and operational resources to absorb the impact of the TV repack,” NPR said in FCC comments.
As part of the reorganization of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting, WCVE President Curtis Monk will leave his position Sept. 14.
Its licensee voted to shut down the station rather than spend $4.4 million to move its channel.
By the time the FCC’s extended filing deadline passed June 1, operators of 688 translators carrying programming of 55 PBS member stations had applied for new channels.
The project marks the “largest non-capital investment that PBS39 has ever made,” according to the station.
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.
The owner of MHz Networks’ WNVC and WNVT sold the stations’ spectrum in last year’s FCC auction.
PBS and America’s Public Television Stations warn that more stations could follow suit.