FCC queries "no-power" low-powers.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 2005

The FCC is investigating a California company holding more than 200 low-power-TV licenses nationwide since 2000 but not yet on the air with any of them, according to the Center for Public Integrity (CPI).

Per the center, Los Angeles-based MS Communications owner Mark Silberman, who began collecting LPTVs in 1992, says he had planned to launch wireless cable networks in underserved areas. He has never broadcast more than a test pattern on any of them, he told the center, saying "regulatory changes and other factors" intervened. The company could lose those licenses if that is the case.

Now Silberman appears to be looking for a buyout. He told the center, "There's going to be someone who needs my channels." License-holders are expected to be on the...

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