Full Commission Rejects PMCM Appeals
The full FCC rejected two applications for review by PMCM and one by Viacom appealing Media Bureau decisions on the broadcaster's effort to transmit a signal on virtual channel 3.10, an order released Friday said. PMCM appealed bureau rulings that…
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its WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, be assigned to virtual channel 33, because 3 already is assigned to another station in the area (see 1607260059). Viacom’s application for review sought to keep WJLP from being carried on channel 33 by local MVPDs. The FCC concluded that bureau assignment of channel 33 was correct, and that Viacom’s and PMCM’s other filings were procedurally defective. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in April denied a PMCM request for a writ of mandamus on the matter (see 1704050063). PMCM and Viacom didn't comment.