Ten-year Pax TV Network affiliation agreement with WPXS Mt. Verno...
Ten-year Pax TV Network affiliation agreement with WPXS Mt. Vernon, Ill. (for St. Louis market), filed with FCC May 8, contains “new technology” clause requiring affiliate to make its digital spectrum available to Pax “on an exclusive basis… to…
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provide additional 24-hours-a-day network(s) programming in a multichannel format.” Official of Network Affiliated Stations Alliance (NASA) said clause was violation of FCC option time rule and that affiliation contracts of ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t include similar requirement. However, Fox contracts require that when network begins multichannel digital transmissions, affiliate must carry such signals on its digital spectrum, official said -- one of charges made against network that NASA wants FCC to investigate (CD May 8 p5).