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Hawaii Broadcaster Files Carriage Complaint Against Charter

With KLEI-TV Kailua Kona, Hawaii, now carried on a multicast subchannel of KKAI Kailua, which delivers a good quality signal to Oceanic Time Warner Cable's Honolulu headend, the cable operator needs to carry KLEI under must-carry rules, the licensee said…

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in an FCC docket 12-1 complaint posted Thursday. Mauna Kea Broadcasting said it's entitled to carriage by Nov. 27, 60 days after its notice to the company now called Spectrum of its signal quality upgrade, but the operator failed to initiate carriage. It said Oceanic typically would have 30 days to respond, but it's asking for immediate intervention. Oceanic parent Charter Communications didn't comment.