KSQA Topeka, Kan., asked the full FCC to reverse a Media...
KSQA Topeka, Kan., asked the full FCC to reverse a Media Bureau order (CD Oct 23 p15) denying the TV station’s request that the bureau require Cox Communications carry it in the same channel slot as its over-the-air location. The…
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order “inexplicably does not address the statutory on-channel positioning right,” the broadcaster said in an application for review posted Friday in docket 12-168. That ruling “inexplicably departs from established Commission policy,” the filing said. It said KSQA is “hopeful” its request to delete Channel 22, its program and systems information protocol slot, as an identifier in place of the terrestrial position of 12 will be granted by the bureau. Cox isn’t carrying KSQA, the station said (http://xrl.us/bn2i6w).