PMCM Vows To Fight in TWC Must-Carry Complaint
PMCM plans to pursue its must-carry complaint against Time Warner Cable "until we are universally carried on Channel 3 throughout the New York market," CEO Robert McAllan said in an email Tuesday in response to a TWC opposition to the…
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complaint in docket 16-27 (see 1602090043). McAllan said TWC's carriage of WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, is problematic because it's carried only on its starter tier and not on every other tier like every other commercial station in New York. He also said TWC's program and system information protocol/over-the-air arguments in the opposition were inconsistent and "if PSIP is our 'channel' then the FCC has to deal with the pesky prohibition in the Spectrum Act that specifically prohibits involuntary changes in 'channels.’”