Smith Media’s KEYT-TV Santa Barbara is entitled to HD carriage...
Smith Media’s KEYT-TV Santa Barbara is entitled to HD carriage on Time Warner Cable’s systems in western Ventura County, Calif., an FCC Media Bureau order said. KEYT-TV had sought carriage on those systems even though they're in a Nielsen designated…
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market area adjacent to Santa Barbara, the order said. TWC had only been carrying the station’s signal on those systems in standard-definition and provided the commission with a retransmission consent letter that it said gave “rolling retransmission consent to TWC” for carriage of the station, the order said. But the bureau found that “TWC has failed to disprove record evidence submitted by KEYT indicating that KEYT’s grant of retransmission consent applies only to TWC’s systems located in eastern Ventura County and not to TWC’s systems in Western Ventura County."