Cox Communications opposed a petition from MPS Media’s WNBW-TV Gainesville,...
Cox Communications opposed a petition from MPS Media’s WNBW-TV Gainesville, Fla., to waive the significantly viewed status of WESH-TV Daytona Beach and WJXT-TV and WTLV-TV both of Jacksonville for the communities of Gainesville, Newberry, Alachua City and unincorporated Alachua County.…
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The Nielsen data about those stations’ viewership fails to support grant of a waiver, Cox said (http://xrl.us/bnotbb). “The Petition and Survey ... are fundamentally deficient under the Commission’s rules and should be summarily rejected,” Cox said. “WNBW is prohibited from exercising syndicated exclusivity against” the two Jacksonville stations in unincorporated Alachua County because those stations signal contours cover parts of those communities, Cox said.