Cox said KSQA-TV Topeka, Kan., shouldn’t be allowed to use the...
Cox said KSQA-TV Topeka, Kan., shouldn’t be allowed to use the station’s new Program System Information Channel Protocol channel (PSIP), if it receives one, to demand carriage on that channel on Cox’s cable systems until after Jan. 1, 2015. “Cox…
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takes no position on the ultimate question of whether the Commission should grant KSQA’s requested waiver” seeking a new PSIP channel, it said (http://xrl.us/bnpr6z). “KSQA’s PSIP Channel Change Request apparently is designed solely to give KSQA the right to demand immediate cable carriage on Channel 12,” Cox said. Cox has opposed the station’s efforts to gain must-carry status on that channel on Cox’s cable systems in Topeka (CD July 16 p12). The station’s RF signal broadcasts on channel 12 but its current PSIP channel is 22. “Cox objects to KSQA’s efforts to retroactively manipulate the outcome of the pending must-carry proceeding by attempting, at this late date to have the Commission change the station’s PSIP channel designation,” it said. “If KSQA wanted the right to demand mandatory carriage on Channel 12 for the current 2012-2015 election period, it should have requested a PSIP channel change in a timely fashion before the October 2011 election date,” it said.