North Dakota Station Files Must-Carry Complaint Against Cable One
KRDK-TV Valley City, North Dakota, is entitled to mandatory carriage on Cable One in the Fargo-Valley City designated market area, KRDK licensee Parker Broadcasting of Dakota License said in an FCC must-carry complaint Thursday. It said KRDK qualifies as a…
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local commercial TV station and not a distant signal because it's licensed to serve Valley City. Parker said KRDK didn't elect between must-carry and retransmission consent before Oct. 1, 2014, and thus defaulted to must-carry status. It also said Cable One seemingly isn't carrying the station because of a contractual relationship between the cable operator and KVLY-TV Fargo, but KVLY has never operated on Channel 4 and thus can't have rights to that channel except as a retrans consent station -- "rights which are clearly secondary to KRDK-TV's right to positioning on Channel 4." Cable One didn't comment Friday.