Quick Takes
KNCT-TV, victim of repack costs, will go dark at end of August
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Its licensee voted to shut down the station rather than spend $4.4 million to move its channel.
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PBS push to preserve translator services awaits FCC decisions
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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.
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Pennsylvania’s PBS39 will add 10 journalists to support new nightly newscast
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The project marks the “largest non-capital investment that PBS39 has ever made,” according to the station.
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.
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International broadcaster MHz Networks ends search for new channel in D.C. area, announces signoff
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The owner of MHz Networks’ WNVC and WNVT sold the stations’ spectrum in last year’s FCC auction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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House committee authorizes additional funding for repack, including radio costs
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The bill would provide the FCC with an additional $322 million per year in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.