The FCC should dismiss or deny a petition by George...
The FCC should dismiss or deny a petition by George Flinn that it reconsider a Media Bureau order excluding Flinn’s WFBD-TV Destin, Fla., from the Mobile-Pensacola market for must-carry purposes and deny the station’s must-carry complaint, Comcast said (http://xrl.us/bnqtyq). The…
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petition for reconsideration is “both procedurally defective and substantively without merit,” Comcast said. The petition wasn’t filed within 30 days of the bureau’s order, it said. Furthermore, the petition provided no material basis to reverse the bureau’s decision, Comcast said. “Instead the Petition merely rehashes the arguments the Station made in its Opposition to Comcast’s Petition for Special Relief, arguments that the Bureau properly considered and rejected."