NAB Offers To Accept Duplex Gap Impairments in Six Markets

NAB offered to accept FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s statement that duplex gap impairments would affect no more than six markets, the association said in a filing posted Monday in docket 12-268. NAB said the commission should be limited to six markets with one TV station each affected, and that none of the six should be among the top-25 markets nationwide. The FCC also shouldn't add any new TV impairments in the wireless band after the clearing target is reached, NAB said. “If a volunteering station elects to drop out of the auction and cannot be repacked in the broadcast portion of the band, the Commission must buy that station at its last accepted price.”