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The National Association of Broadcasters is calling upon its members – US television channels – to warn the public that the White House, and Senate, are eyeing up television's most-valuable asset. The FCC has already drawn up plans allowing TV stations to sell off some of their excess spectrum inventory, and is hoping to …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    F*CK NAB

    And illegal leases of public spectrum in perpetuity. TV is a wasteland, there is nothing good on there and everyone gets their TV from Cable & Satellite. Most of the channels are empty white-space.

    That said, also f*ck cell phone companies and their eternal leases. Lets expropriate that spectrum and start looking at unlicensed options. When cellular phones first came out, they needed blocks of frequencies, but now they could negotiate packet delivery without a central authority.

  2. unitron

    Mass hypnosis at the FCC?

    "The FCC has already drawn up plans allowing TV stations to sell off some of their excess spectrum inventory..."

    I know the broadcasters think that they own the spectrum which they use, but you'd think that the FCC, which does not give it to them or sell it to them, but licenses them to use it, wouldn't have succumbed to that particular bit of self-delusion.

    As for the NAB's concern about public safety, where was that concern when robot radio was of no use to residents of Minot, North Dakota endangered by a train derailment and spill of toxic materials?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment

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