The FCC has updated the Table of TV Allotments to reflect the “termination” of an incentive auction channel sharing arrangement between a pair of noncommercial educational television stations in Chicago.
The end of the CSA involves a station that no longer exists, by design.
That would be the former WYCC-20, owned by Window of the World Communications. It is a sibling to Chicago’s primary PBS Member station, WTTW-11.
WYCC participated in the FCC’s spectrum auction, and in April 2017 it obtained a bid of $15,959,957. This put the wheels in motion on a channel-sharing agreement that would have had WYCC continue as a digital subchannel of WTTW.
However, the bid was lower than what Window of the World believed it could attract for the facility, and that led decisionmakers to cease operations for WYCC altogether.
That transpired in May 2022, with the license for WYCC turned in and an application for modification of its licenses filed with the FCC by Window of the World to “modify the WTTW license to dissolve the channel share such that the WTTW license has the full channel capacity.”
WYCC’s license was canceled in June. Thus, amending the Table of Allotments for TV stations in Chicago was necessary, and has now been done.
