Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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This is stupid. The world has changed so much since these original licenses were issued. I don't understand why these companies that still run commercials and get to broadcast to anything that can receive it in these huge swatches of bandwidth feel they're entitled to anything, this country, for the moment, is still somewhat based on capitalism: innovate or die, right?
The problem is that radio frequencies should never have been allocated and controlled the way that it has been.
NAB is in the wrong in this case, but to think about the principle of the matter, so is FCC for having the authority to conduct auctions of frequency blocks and to regulate them in cases other than for the purpose of limiting criminal use (or other externalities) of the said radio frequencies.
By what right can government claim to have owned these blocks of frequencies in the first place? The government has set the bad precedent ever since they began to regulate them in that manner. It would be as though government can claim that they can bulldoze your house down for public projects... oh wait, they already do that under eminent domain...
Unfortunately these regulatory system has been created long before people thought open and self-regulating standards were good idea.