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The FCC Media Bureau seeks comment in three...

The FCC Media Bureau seeks comment in three proceedings on channel substitution. ION Media requested substitution of Channel 31 for Channel 51 in Rome, Georgia, for WPXA-TV Rome, and it requested substitution of Channel 30 for Channel 51 in Kansas…

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City, Missouri, for its station KPXE-TV Kansas City, the bureau said in NPRMs released Thursday (http://bit.ly/Z8QTB5) and (http://bit.ly/1r9lgO8). WPXS-TV Mount Vernon, Illinois, seeks to substitute Channel 11 for Channel 21 in Mount Vernon, the bureau said in another NPRM (http://bit.ly/1o2AWC5). WPXS-TV also wants a waiver of the FCC’s freeze on the filing of petitions for rulemaking by TV stations seeking a channel substitution, it said. Initial comments in both proceedings will be due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, the bureau said.