Genachowski: FCC on Track for Fall Incentive Auction Proposals

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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says the FCC is still on
track to start putting out its incentive auctions proposals by the fall. That
is according to prepared testimony for a July 10 oversight hearing in the House
Communications Subcommittee.

Broadcasters have been pushing the FCC to release its
framework for the auctions ASAP so they can decide whether or not it is in
their interest to participate.

The chairman also plans to tell Congress that the FCC has
reduced by 20% the number of license and application renewals that had been
pending for more than six months, as well as cutting in half the amount of time
it took to review what he called routine wireless transactions.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.