Several small TV and cable systems sought exemption for one...
Several small TV and cable systems sought exemption for one year from the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act rules that direct broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD) to avoid transmitting commercials at a higher volume than the surrounding…
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programming. Cable Services in North Dakota, Carolina Christian Broadcasting in South Carolina, Vermont-based Jeffersonville Cable TV Corp. and Stowe Cablevision and other small MVPDs filed waiver requests citing financial hardship, which were posted in docket 11-93. The deadline for the waiver requests was Friday. Stowe said it is a small MVPD system and that it needs a one-year delay “in obtaining equipment in order to avoid the financial hardship that would be imposed were it required to obtain the equipment” by the effective date of the CALM Act (http://xrl.us/bntuyu). Holston Valley Broadcasting said its class A digital TV stations WKPT-CD Kingsport, Tenn., and WAPG-CD Greeneville, Tenn., would suffer financial hardship were the stations “to be compelled to acquire new equipment and software prior to Dec. 13” (http://xrl.us/bntu2d) (http://xrl.us/bntu2j). The CALM Act will take effect on that date (CD July 9 p14).