All those TV-station employees wondering whether they dodged a bullet in the 2017 broadcast incentive auction can now search for that information, which shows that there were 858 stations willing to give up spectrum, or a little less than half of the 1,800 stations the Federal Communications Commission was interested in getting bids from. Those 858 bids totaled a whopping $187,391,861,235.
The FCC announced the broadcasters who successfully bid to go off the air or share channels in the auction soon after it closed, but placed a two-year hold on publicizing which broadcasters got outbid.
That two-year moratorium expired Monday (April 22), and the information, plus more data on the reverse auction, has now been made public, with thousands of bids now available for perusal.
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