New Day Broadband has been carrying KIRO-TV Seattle without permission...
New Day Broadband has been carrying KIRO-TV Seattle without permission since Aug. 1, 2010, the station’s owner Cox Enterprises said in an enforcement complaint filed with the FCC March 12 and posted online Thursday. It asked the commission to order…
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New Day to come into compliance with retransmission consent rules and to level any sanctions the Media Bureau deems necessary. The dispute stems from the sale of some of Broadstripe’s systems to New Day in 2010. The station was carried through a retrans agreement with Broadstripe, but Cox said it stopped receiving payments after New Day took control of the systems (http://xrl.us/bmzu3o). “New Day does not have Cox’s consent to retransmit KIRO-TV on its Systems,” but it apparently continues to do so, the complaint said. “The only question is how long it has retransmitted KIRO-TV’s signal without Cox’s consent.” New Day hasn’t responded to Cox’s recent letters of inquiries about settling the matter, it said.