Charter Communications and Cox Communications each face a broadcaster complaint...
Charter Communications and Cox Communications each face a broadcaster complaint to the FCC alleging carriage-related violations, in filings from June posted Friday in docket 12-1. Charter stopped carrying WMYD Detroit last month “without providing any notice to Granite,” that company…
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said (http://xrl.us/bnf9bd). “Charter also apparently failed to provide reasonable notice to its subscribers as required by Section 76.1603 of the Commission’s Rules.” Cox broke agency rules by not carrying KSQA Topeka, Kan., as Channel 12 on its system there, the station’s over-the-air channel slot, the broadcaster said (http://xrl.us/bnf9df). “The purported legal basis for the denial of over-the-air carriage is a deceptively edited version of the Commission’s Declaratory Order” in 2008 on carriage of DTV signals, the filing said. Spokespeople for the cable operators had no comment.