Report: Broadcasters To FCC 'We're Number One'

The National Association of Broadcasters, joined by the major networks and their affiliate groups, don't want the FCC to declare to the world that broadcasters and wireless companies are coprimary users of the spectrum band that broadcasters have historically occupied as primary users, according to Broadcasting&Cable.

Wireless companies have proposed the FCC change that designation since the FCC is reclaiming and auctioning broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband. Broadcasters oppose the move, which would weaken the interference protections it enjoys as a primary user designee and which they feel is important to preserve as the FCC attempts to weave mobile operators into the broadcast band and "harmonize" that band with international users.

That came in a filing with the FCC Tuesday on the issue of draft recommendations of the FCC advisory commission to the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference.

According to the NAB, broadcasters are united against the mobile broadband proposal, which they say would leave the U.S. as the only country without a swath of spectrum to which broadcasters can claim primary status. At the least they say, changing the designation needs more study.

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