PMCM Wants Full FCC To Rule on Must-Carry Complaints
PMCM wants the full FCC to rule on three must-carry complaints it filed against Time Warner Cable, Service Electric Cable TV and RCN Telecom Services over carriage of its station WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey. The complaints are the latest…
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salvo in PMCM’s battle to broadcast its station on virtual channel 3.10, though Channel 3 is already assigned to another TV station. The Media Bureau assigned WJLP to virtual channel 33, and PMCM’s applications for review of this decision haven't been successful, which it says is why it’s time for the full commission to weigh in. The complaints say none of the three cable companies is carrying WJLP on Channel 3. There's “an urgent need” for the full commission to “untangle this situation quickly since the current situation seems to be spawning an ever-widening circle of unanticipated consequences,” PMCM said in all three complaint filings.