Cox Communications opposed and asked the FCC to dismiss a...
Cox Communications opposed and asked the FCC to dismiss a carriage complaint KSQA LLC filed against it (http://xrl.us/bngryn). KSQA Topeka, Kan., had asked the commission (CD July 10 p11) to force Cox to carry its signal on a channel corresponding…
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to its over-the-air channel (http://xrl.us/bnbvvx). Under the Communications Act, the station is only eligible to be carried on its major channel number as identified by the program system information protocol, or PSIP, Cox said. It’s not guaranteed carriage on its RF channel, Cox said. “The Bureau should deny and dismiss the complaint because the Commission had indisputably and repeatedly held that a digital station’s right to on-channel carriage ... is limited to” the PSIP location, and potentially the channel position on which it was historically carried, Cox said.