KSQA LLC said two recent decisions by the FCC Media...
KSQA LLC said two recent decisions by the FCC Media Bureau directly conflict with each other regarding its quest for must-carry rights for its KSQA Topeka, Kan., on channel 12 on Cox’s cable systems. Cox already carries the station on…
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channel 22 and the bureau recently dismissed the station’s complaint to exert its must-carry rights on channel 12. In its dismissal order the bureau also wrote that it dismissed the complaint without prejudice to the station refiling it after deleting its Major Channel Number 22. More recently the bureau also clarified in a separate proceeding that the station’s major channel number is 12. However, “Cox continues its refusal to carry KSQA on Channel 12,” the station said (http://xrl.us/bn8o5z). “KSQA requests that the Commission issue an order directing Cox Cable to commence carriage immediately of the KSQA signal” on channel 12, it said.