Todd D. Gray

A Member in the firm’s Communications Practice, Todd Gray founded and leads the Public Broadcasting and Educational Telecommunications Practice that specializes in telecommunications matters for educational institutions, state and local governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations. In over 30 years with the firm, he has represented numerous public broadcasters, entities engaged in educational telecommunications, educational institutions and businesses involved in public radio and television, EBS, wireless and emerging communications technologies.

He represents more than 300 public broadcasting stations, including 11 state public broadcasting networks, and numerous other public and private non-profit licensees in both urban and rural areas. He also works with many of the country's major universities and university systems. A noted expert in the FCC's Educational Broadband Service (EBS, formerly called ITFS), Mr. Gray represents over 600 EBS stations, including some of the country's largest EBS users, and is also counsel to the National EBS Association. 

Representative Experience

• Assist numerous public broadcasters in the original licensing or systematic expansion of their stations or station networks. 

• Represent public television and radio stations in a variety of transactions, including reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and sales of stations and third-party station management agreements. 

• Assist public broadcasting national entities (CPB, PBS, NPR, and APTS) on many matters of public policy regarding public broadcasting, including drafting of comments submitted to the FCC in rule making proceedings. 

• Work with hundreds of EBS licensees to meet FCC substantial service requirements as well as to negotiate excess capacity agreements with commercial wireless service providers, including Clearwire. 

• Represent dozens of EBS licensees in connection with bankruptcy proceedings involving their excess capacity lessees, including the Worldcom, Nucentrix and Xanadoo bankruptcies. 

• Represent the National EBS Association and the EBS community in the preservation of the EBS band for educators in the face of threatened reallocation to wireless carriers, and in the development and advocacy of new FCC rules that transformed the ITFS video service into the EBS wireless broadband service.