WJLP Not 'Poaching,' PMCM Says
PMCM TV's WJLP Middletown, New Jersey, isn't “poaching” other stations' brands in its quest to be assigned to virtual channel 3.10, PMCM said in a reply to oppositions to its application for review posted in FCC docket 14-150 Tuesday. "There…
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was not a single complaint of confusion or inability to receive CBS or Meredith from any of the 20 million+ viewers in the New York" market after WJLP began using that channel, PMCM said. Instead, it is the Media Bureau’s assignment of WJLP to Channel 33 that has created problems, PMCM said. Reassigning WJLP to 33 also violated the Spectrum Act, PMCM said. The statute “expressly and absolutely bars the Commission from involuntarily reassigning a television licensee to another channel prior to the Incentive Auction,” PMCM said. Viacom also filed a reply in the docket, asking the FCC to clarify Cablevision's carriage requirements for WJLP under the station's unusual virtual channel assignment. Though an earlier PMCM filing characterized Viacom's filing as an appeal against PMCM (see 1507150024), Viacom said that's not the case.