The FCC has voted on a report and order (a final decision) to make changes to the carriage election notice rules for low-power TV stations and translators.
The commission has concluded that LPTVs that qualify for must-carry have to send notices to the relevant MVPDs by email if they change their carriage election status, just as the FCC is requiring of full power TVs.
The FCC back in July voted unanimously to allow TV stations to transition their notifications to MVPDs of their carriage election–must-carry or retrans–to email, as well as require them to post them on their public files.
But unlike full powers, those LPTVs and noncommercial educational translator stations that qualify for must-carry don’t have to make those carriage elections available for public inspection.
