{"id":5495,"date":"2015-05-20T02:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2015-05-20T02:36:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:36:56","slug":"engineering-notebook-important-update-concerning-tv-technical-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/engineering-notebook-important-update-concerning-tv-technical-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Notebook – Important Update Concerning TV Technical Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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As the FCC continues to align items for the upcoming television auction, it was announce that the Commission\u00a0has developed – and obtained OMB approval of – Form 2100, Schedule 381. That’s the form that will have to be completed and filed, at some point in the upcoming months, by (a) all full-power and Class A TV licensees entitled to mandatory protection in the upcoming incentive auction as well as (b) those with Commission-afforded discretionary protection.<\/p>\n

While normally engineers are not involved in fillings with the Commission…this one is different,\u00a0because\u00a0May 29\u00a0is the deadline for correcting any errors that (in the FCC’s words) licensees “may have made in providing [the Commission] their operating parameters”.<\/div>\n

In a release by Fletcher Heald and Hildreth, for repack purposes the parameters set out in authorizations in the FCC’s databases as of\u00a0May 29\u00a0will govern, even if the specs of a station’s actual operation don’t match up with those parameters.<\/p>\n

So if the database’s parameters inaccurately short-change a station somehow, the licensee should (a) figure that out ASAP and (b) take steps to get the databases corrected before\u00a0May 29th.<\/p>\n

Basically you should check the station authorization in the FCC database, making sure there are no\u00a0discrepancy between the FCC’s database entries and your actual authorizations. \u00a0This includes correct tower coordinates, ERP\/TPO, antenna information, etc. \u00a0Engineers are encouraged to review the requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Larry Wilkins CPBE\u00ae<\/em>
\nAlabama Broadcasters Association<\/em>
\n334-303-2525<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Television Engineers take note!!! As the FCC continues to align items for the upcoming television auction, it was announce that the Commission\u00a0has developed – and obtained OMB approval of – Form 2100, Schedule 381. That’s the form that will have to be completed and filed, at some point in the upcoming months, by (a) all … Continue reading Engineering Notebook – Important Update Concerning TV Technical Operations<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}