WPXS Mount Vernon, Illinois, petitioned the FCC for...
WPXS Mount Vernon, Illinois, petitioned the FCC for a rulemaking on substituting VHF Channel 11 for Channel 21. The TV station wants to operate on Channel 11 to improve its service to the public, “without causing any interference to other…
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stations or adversely affecting the plans for an incentive auction,” it said in its petition posted Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1mAjovp). It also requested a waiver of the freeze on the filing of petitions for digital channel substitutions, it said. The waiver will serve the public interest because WPXS will continue to provide service to the public and “the proposed channel change will free spectrum which can be used in a spectrum auction,” it said.