FCC Announces Comment Deadline for Eighth Further DTV NPRM

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The DTV transition Seventh Report and Order and Eighth Further Notice of Proposed Rule making (NPRM) was published in the Federal Register Sept. 10, 2007. This sets the deadline for filing comments as Oct. 10, 2007. Reply comments are due on or before Oct. 25, 2007.

The FCC Public Notice announcing the dates explains that the Eighth Further NPRM sought comment on the DTV channels and technical facilities the FCC proposes to assign to several new TV broadcast permittees that recently attained permittee status. In addition, the Eighth Further NPRM sought comment on other proposals for revisions for the DTV Table of Allotments adopted in the Seventh Report and Order.

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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.