PMCM Tests Shared PSIP in Other Markets
TVs in other markets also don't correctly tune to the desired station when receiving a signal from a station transmitting with a major channel number program and system information protocol in the same area where a different station is transmitting…
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on the same over-the-air channel, PMCM said in an ex parte filing posted Wednesday in FCC docket 14-150. The Media Bureau assigned PMCM's WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, to virtual channel 33, though PMCM is seeking to be assigned virtual channel 3.10. But many viewers trying to watch WJLP on channel 33 are instead receiving WCBS-TV New York, which broadcasts on that channel, PMCM said (see 1510010031). Testing by PMCM shows that if WJLP were on the channel PMCM wants, most TVs would allow viewers to choose which channel they tune to when entering the virtual channel number, rather than automatically selecting one or the other, PMCM has said. The tests mentioned in the latest ex parte filing show that this works in other markets as well, PMCM said.