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The interim chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District is recommending that the district convert its public TV and radio stations into a media training lab by 2023.
The foundation is giving $5.3 million to 11 local nonprofits, including public station WHYY.
The partnership, initiated last fall, extends CP’s educational initiative for high school students and veterans into a third city and the first library location.
The commission declined to reimburse wireless provider T-Mobile and left reimbursing radio stations a lower priority.
The FCC must set reimbursement rules for translators and FM stations by March 23.
“Going forward we generally want to mitigate production risk,” said interim GM Keith Birkfeld.
Bohdan Zachary of Milwaukee PBS testified in Congress Tuesday on the need for consumer education following the spectrum auction.
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.