The FCC Media Bureau recommended the commission issue a notice...
The FCC Media Bureau recommended the commission issue a notice of apparent liability to TV Max for carrying about half a dozen Houston-area TV stations without a negotiated retransmission consent agreement. “We expect TV Max to immediately stop retransmitting the…
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Stations’ signals without consent and come into compliance with the Commission’s rules,” said a letter released Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bn8xad). TV Max had been in the process of installing master antenna TV systems (MATV) in place at the buildings where it provides service, the letter said. But “we believe that TV Max’s unlawful retransmission of the Stations’ signals over its cable system ... is not cured by its installation of MATV systems on its MDU [multiple dwelling unit] buildings,” the letter said. “The record shows that TV Max is retransmitting the Stations’ signals from its off-site (central) headend that serves multiple MDUs ... rather than using the MATV antenna at the individual buildings for all of its customers."