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Date set for dish spectrum sale

By Bill McConnell -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/29/2003 11:31:00 AM

Jan. 14 is the new date for a Federal Communications Commission auction of spectrum slated for a new terrestrial-based dish TV system that would compete with DBS and cable.

Primary applicants for the frequencies, located on the same band as DBS, are Northpoint Technology and MDS America.

Northpoint, however, has asked federal judges to block the sale on grounds that it went to great expense to prove the service viable and there were no competing applications at the time it filed for the license.

On the block will be licenses for 214 markets in the 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands.

Minimum bids range from $961,000 for New York City to $1,000 for rural Alaska.

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