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From Comm Daily, 12/21/10

LPTV licensees should be allowed to provide local wireless broadband service, said the

LPTV Entrepreneurs, a group of owners of small stations and the Minority Media and

Telecommunications Council, which represent the interests of about 200 stations. LPTV

licensees may also want to participate in the type of incentive auctions mentioned in the

National Broadband Plan, the group said. The potential opportunity represented by incentive

auctions would do much to stabilize and undergird the value imputed to LPTV stations by

investors and lenders, thereby enhancing access to capital for these small and diverse

competitors." Echoing other broadcasters, the LPTV Entrepreneurs said requiring stations to

end analog broadcasts too soon could force many out of business entirely. Plans for

spectrum reallocation should not put current LPTV broadcasters at risk of losing access to

spectrum, nor should reallocation be done in a manner that will foreclose opportunities in the

future, it said. Josh Wein