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Auction 28: Broadcast Auction

Summary

March 21, 2000 - March 24, 2000
Rounds:
26
Bidding Days:
4
Qualified Bidders:
4
Winning Bidders:
2 bidders won 2 licenses
Gross Bids:
$1,210,000
Net Bids:
$1,210,000
Reports Files
Top Licenses (by High Bid)
Summary of Round Results
Maps & Band Plans
Primary Service Television
Secondary Service Television
FM Radio
FM Translator
General Information

Band Plan icon Closed Broadcast & Open Broadcast (pdf)

3/27/2000
Winning Bidders

3/9/2000
Qualified Bidders

2/25/2000
Applications to Participate

3/27/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-690)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction No. 28 Closes; Two Winning Bidders in the Auction of Certain LPTV and TV Broadcast Construction Permits
pdf - text - Word
Attachment A: pdf
Attachment B: pdf

3/9/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-527)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction No. 28 4 Qualified Bidders
Attachment A: pdf
Attachment B: pdf
Attachment C: pdf
Attachment D: pdf
Attachment E: pdf
Attachment F: pdf

3/1/2000
LETTER (DA 00-436)
This letter responds to your letter dated February 23, 2000, requesting on behalf of your client Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc. (?Three Angels?) waiver of the filing deadline for submission of its FCC short-form (Form 175) application for Auction No. 28

Fact Sheet

Date:

Auction 28 began on 3/21/2000 and closed on 3/24/2000.
Round 26 (See PN DA 00-690)

Licenses:

PST MX groups 1 (PST - 1)
SST MX groups 1 (SST - 10)

Spectrum:

PST - 72 MHz to 806 MHz
SST - 72 MHz to 806 MHz

Bandwidth:

PST - 6 MHz per permits
SST - 6 MHz per permits

Winning Bidders:
2 bidders won 2 licenses
Rounds:
26
Qualified Bidders:
4
Licenses Won:
2
Total Licenses:
2
Net Bids:
$1,210,000
Gross Bids:
$1,210,000

 

General information and associated licensing parameters are provided below. Public Notices provide specific information regarding this auction. This fact sheet includes:

Key Dates

EventDate
Pre-Auction Seminar
2/3/2000
Form 175 (Short Form) Application Filing Deadline
2/18/2000
Upfront Payments Deadline
3/6/2000
Mock Auction
3/17/2000
Auction Start
3/21/2000
Auction Closed
3/24/2000

Construction Permits Offered

This Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction disposed of the remaining broadcast applications not included in Auctions #25 and #27 (completed October 8, 1999). These will include mutually exclusive applications for "daisy chains" in the AM, LPTV, and television and FM translator applications and certain mutually exclusive LPTV and TV translator displacement relief applications. Daisy chains occur due to the contour overlap rules used to determine interference in these services. For MX groups categorized as daisy chains, the Commission proposed an electronic single round auction. For all other licenses, the Commission proposed an electronic simultaneous multiple round auction.

All spectrum auctioned was the subject of pending, mutually exclusive applications for which the Commission had not approved settlement agreements. Applicants were eligible to bid only on those construction permits for which they had filed previously a long form application (FCC Forms 301, 346 or 349).

Note: Initially the inventory for this auction included 14 construction permits. Certain MX groups were removed to non-exclusivityof a settlement was submitted by the short-form (FCC Form 175) application deadline.

Permissible Operations

TV Broadcast (PST)- A station in the television broadcast band transmitting simultaneous visual and aural signals intended to be received by the general public.

LPTV (SST) - A station that may retransmit the programs and signals of a TV broadcast station and that may originate programming in any amount greater than 30 seconds per hour and/or operates a subscription service.

Incumbents

LPTV or television translator licensees who receive their license by competitive bidding must protect full power television stations from interference and will be subject to displacement by a full service television licensee. (See 47 C.F.R. §§ 73.3572a and 74.703b) An FM translator station will not be permitted to continue to operate if it causes interference to any authorized broadcast station, even if the translator licensee received its license by competitive bidding. (See 47 C.F.R section 74.1203a & b).

License Period

A winning bidder is awarded a construction permit, rather than a "license." A winning bidder is required, within a specified time period, to construct its facilities and file an application for a "license to cover construction permit" to obtain a license for the constructed facilities. (See 47 C.F.R. § 73.3598) Licenses are issued for an eight-year term.

New Entrant Bidding Credit

A bidding credit represents the amount by which a bidder's winning bids are discounted. The size of a New Entrant Bidding Credit depends on the number of ownership interests in other media of mass communications that are attributable to the bidder-entity and its attributable interest-holders: 

Bidding credits are not cumulative. A qualifying applicant receives either the 25 percent or 35 percent bidding credit, but not both. Attributable interests are defined in 47 C.F.R. § 73.3555 and Note 2 of that section.

Releases P

3/27/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-690)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction No. 28 Closes; Two Winning Bidders in the Auction of Certain LPTV and TV Broadcast Construction Permits
This Public Notice provides detailed information concerning winning bidders, down payments, bid withdrawal payments and/or deposits, amendment filing requirements for FCC Forms 301 and 346 ("long-form applications") of winning bidders and other licensing matters.
pdf - text - Word
Attachment A: pdf
Attachment B: pdf

3/9/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-527)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction No. 28 4 Qualified Bidders
The Public Notice announces 4 applicants that are qualified to bid in Auction No.28 and also details bidding instructions and other pertinent information about the auction.
Attachment A: pdf
Attachment B: pdf
Attachment C: pdf - Word
Attachment D: pdf - Word
Attachment E: pdf - Word
Attachment F: pdf - Word

2/25/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-405)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction No. 28, Status of Applications to Participate in the Auction
This Public Notice announces the applications that were timely filed for Auction No. 28 and addresses upfront payment information as well as other important data.
Attachment A: pdf

1/24/2000
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 00-125)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Pre-Auction Seminar, Thursday, February 3, 2000
This public notice gives pre-registering instructions for the February auction. This seminar provides an opportunity for hands-on demonstrations of the FCC filing and bidding software and access to the FCC staff responsible for the auction.

1/24/2000
ERRATUM TO (DA 99-2958)
Correction to Attachment A Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction DA 99-2859, Released December 23, 1999
See original Public Notice DA99-2958. This public notice corrects and replaces Attachment A of the Public Notice announcing the auction and filing requirements for the Auction of certain AM, FM, LPTV, and TV Broadcast Construction Permits Scheduled for March 21, 2000.
pdf - text - Word
See Original PN
Attachment A: xls

12/23/1999
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 99-2958)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction 28 Report No. AUC-99-28-A
This Public Notice announces the auction of certain AM, FM, LPTV, and TV broadcast construction permits to commence March 21, 2000 in Auction No.28
pdf - text - Word
See Correction
Attachment A (Note: this file has been replaced with the correct version): xls

11/19/1999
PUBLIC NOTICE (DA 99-2594)
Supplemental Closed Broadcast Auction Schedule for March 21, 2000 - Comment Sought on Reserve Prices for Minimum Opening Bids and Other Auction Procedural Issues.; Report No. AUC-99-28-A
This Public Notice announces the auction of certain AM, FM, LPTV, and TV broadcast construction permits to commence March 21, 2000 in Auction No.28.
Attachment A: xls

Releases O

8/5/1999
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER (FCC 99-201)
In the Matter of Implementation of Section 309(j) of the Communications Act -- Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses
This MO&O addresses further attribution issues.

4/20/1999
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER (FCC 99-74)
In the Matter of Implementation of Section 309(j) of the Communications Act -- Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses Reexamination of the Policy Statement ) on Comparative Broadcast Hearings Proposals to Reform the Commission's Comparative Hearing Process to Expedite the Resolution of Cases
This MO&O resolves several petitions for reconsideration of the First Report and Order in MM Docket No. 97-234, GC Docket No. 92-52 and GEN Docket No. 90-264, 13 FCC Rcd 15920 (1998), which implemented provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 expanding the Commission's competitive bidding authority, under Sections 309(j) and 309(l) of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 309(j), 309(l), to include the broadcast services.

8/18/1998
FIRST REPORT AND ORDER (FCC 98-194)
In the Matter of Implementation of Section 309(j) of the Communications Act -- Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses Reexamination of the Policy Statement on Comparative Broadcast Hearings Proposals to Reform the Commission's Comparative Hearing Process to Expedite the Resolution of Cases
This Order implements provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which expanded the Commission's competitive bidding authority under Section 309(j) of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. 309(j), by adding provisions governing auctions for broadcast services.
pdf - text

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