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DA 19-307
Released:  April 22, 2019

INCENTIVE AUCTION TASK FORCE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION RELATED TO NON-WINNING BIDS IN AUCTION 1001
AU Docket No. 14-252
GN Docket No. 12-268
WT Docket No. 12-269
MB Docket No. 16-306

The Incentive Auction Task Force, in conjunction with the Media Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and the Office of Economics and Analytics, announce that certain information about non-winning bids in the reverse auction portion of the broadcast television incentive auction (Auction 1000) has been made public.
On April 13, 2017, the Commission released the Incentive Auction Closing Public Notice announcing the close of the incentive auction (Auction 1000). Incentive Auction Closing and Channel Reassignment Public Notice, Public Notice, 32 FCC Rcd 2786, (WTB 2017) (Incentive Auction Closing Public Notice or Closing PN).
  At that time, the Commission released the full results of the forward auction (Auction 1002). Id. at 2790-91 para. 7.
  Consistent with the Commission’s decision to keep information pertaining to unsuccessful bids in the reverse auction (Auction 1001) confidential for a period of two years after the close of the auction, Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions, Report and Order, 29 FCC Rcd 6567, 6731-32, paras. 386-88 (2014), aff’d, Nat’l Assoc. of Broadcasters, et al v. FCC, 789 F.3d 165 (D.C. Cir. 2015) (Incentive Auction R&O); see also Closing PN at 2818-19, paras. 95-96.
 the Commission only released information regarding the Auction 1001 winning bidders and their winning bid amounts at that time. Closing PN, 32 FCC Rcd at 2793-96, paras. 15-20.
  The two-year confidentiality period has now ended.  Today we are making available information about non-winning bids and other related data regarding bidding in the reverse auction, together with an updated file specification document, on the Commission’s Auction 1001 web page at www.fcc.gov/auction/1001.
For further information concerning the release of Auction 1000 data, please email auction1000@fcc.gov or contact Jonathan McCormack or Craig Bomberger, Auctions Division, Office of Economics and Analytics, at (202) 418-0660.
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