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Broadcasters have offered up arguments to the FCC for why the government should not be in a rush to reclaim their spectrum to feed the wireless beast, including that they remain the home of educational programming and news and emergency information. Some spectrum reallocation proposals include a total reclamation from commercial, noncommercial and low-power license holders in exchange for some kind of continued mandatory cable/satellite carriage regime combined with a government subsidy for multichannel subscriptions. In joint comments to the FCC, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Association For Maximum Service Television said the FCC should not simply focus on broadcast frequencies when it looks for wireless spectrum, but should look at those already allocated for wireless, including the 100 mHz broadcasters have already given up in the transition to digital. Read more -here-
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