"As a result, if the FCC needs a translator or LPTV channel for the auction, it can take the channel without compensating the translator’s owner, even if the broadcaster has no spectrum to move to. A July CPB report said that 62 of the 170 CPB-supported TV stations operate about 565 translators in 35 states.  “[U]p to 200 of the translators may disappear because there will not be channels available for them once the television stations have been repacked,” the report said."

[Link: current.org]