Southern California will soon have just one single PBS outlet...

[CaliRadioFan]

.....and according to the results of the just concluded FCC UHF Bandwith Incentive auction, that outlet will be KVCR-TV out of San Bernardino. LAUSD has sold KLOS, and the KOCE Foundation is closing shop as well, perhaps close to the end of 2017. Both KDOC and KWHY will be moving to VHF channels. KMEX (Univision), KVEA (Telemundo), KFUT (Telefutura) were not on the "Going Off Air" list. With the exception of KCET, most of the other So Cal UHF stations are.

 

[Joey1986]

.....and according to the results of the just concluded FCC UHF Bandwith Incentive auction, that outlet will be KVCR-TV out of San Bernardino. LAUSD has sold KLOS, and the KOCE Foundation is closing shop as well, perhaps close to the end of 2017. Both KDOC and KWHY will be moving to VHF channels. KMEX (Univision), KVEA (Telemundo), KFUT (Telefutura) were not on the "Going Off Air" list. With the exception of KCET, most of the other So Cal UHF stations are.

1. The LAUSD station is KLCS.
2a. Telefutura has been known as UniMás since 2013.
2b. UniMás's Los Angeles outlet is KFTR.

 

[e-dawg]

I think KLCS is going to share channel with KCET CH.28 and KOCE is going to share with KSCI CH.18.

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/kc...-and-give-up-spectrum-for-auction-1201302616/

http://current.org/2017/04/los-ange...channel-sharing-deal-in-fcc-spectrum-auction/

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/...eed-KOCE-To-Expand-Service-With-Auction-Money

 

[tripinva]

Here's a relevant article about KOCE: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/103258/koce-to-expand-service-with-auction-money

KCET and KLCS announced a channel sharing deal in 2014. https://www.kcet.org/press-room/kcetlink-and-klcs-announce-channel-sharing-partnership

EDIT: e-dawg's post didn't show for me before I posted, so mine's completely redundant. Sorry.

- Trip

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2017/04/list-of-stations-changing-channel-assignments-in-repack/

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/103282/tmobile-dish-network-big-auction-winners

Update!

Other major winners in the auction included Comcast, which spent $1,724 billion.

The nation’s two wireless giants, AT&T and Verizon, did not play major roles in the auction. AT&T spent only $910 million and Verizon did not win any spectrum at all after indicating it would bid.

Of more importance to some, the FCC said yesterday the so-called anti-collusion period, during which bidders were prevented from talking to each other or publicly commenting on their auction plans, is scheduled to end April 27.

As reported, many expect a new round of talks among wireless companies to begin after that date, with some predicting more consolidation in the wireless business will follow. The FCC said final payments on the spectrum won will be due May 11.



Dish Network, using a entity called “Parker B” in the auction, will be required to pay the FCC slightly more than $4.7 billion more by that date. T-Mobile will be required to fork over almost $5.8 billion more by that deadline.

Both of those companies won spectrum in all 416 geographic areas designated by the FCC, including the nation’s largest markets.

AT&T had been expected to be a larger bidder in the auction, though it this week announced a $1.6 billion to acquire spectrum holder Straight Path Communications — a deal some reports yesterday said Verizon could try to win with a higher offer.

The FCC said some 50 companies won spectrum in the auction, but none came close to T-Mobile or Dish Network in terms of amounts. Moreover, Dish Network did not attempt to use so-called “designated entity” discounts for small businesses in an attempt to reduce the amount it had to pay in the auction.

Dish Network’s affiliation with two entities it controls 80% percent of became a huge controversy in the last spectrum auction the company participated in. The FCC eventually denied some $3 billion in discounts to those entities, which those two companies have appealed in court.