May 28, 2004

Colleges Fight to Keep Control of Their TV Spectrum

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

A coalition of higher-education institutions, led by community colleges, is pressing the Federal Communications Commission to drop a plan that would allow businesses to compete for educational institutions' unused broadcast spectrum. Colleges typically use the spectrum to air educational television programming.

The commission says that colleges and schools are not using much of the spectrum they have been allotted, known as Instructional Television Fixed Service, and that companies

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