The FCC Media Bureau mostly granted a petition from WMBC-TV...
The FCC Media Bureau mostly granted a petition from WMBC-TV Newton, N.J., to add 174 communities in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut to its market for must-carry purposes, an order released late Friday said (http://xrl.us/bmw22y). The same communities were…
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deleted from the station’s market in a series of orders in 1996 and 1997 granting market modification petitions submitted by Cablevision, the order said. But the station argued that the underlying facts of those orders had changed, meriting another revision to its market boundaries. The station is carried by competing pay-TV companies in most of the communities, it improved its signal coverage with a distributed transmission system consisting of two transmitter sites, its Grade B contour has expanded and its programming has changed to include more local service, it said in its petition. The bureau agreed to re-include all but three of the 174 communities to WMBC market.