The FCC gave a cable operator another one-week extension to reply...
The FCC gave a cable operator another one-week extension to reply to a must-carry complaint by Western Pacific Broadcast, which itself sought two more weeks to answer the opposition of Armstrong Utilities to another of the broadcaster’s complaints seeking guaranteed…
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distribution for WACP Atlantic City, N.J. Media Bureau Policy Division Deputy Chief Steven Broeckaert approved Atlantic Broadband’s request to have until Monday to reply to the must-carry complaint for WACP, as the operator and Western Pacific talk about a possible settlement (CD Jan 15 p12), he said in an email Monday to lawyers for both sides. Giving Western Pacific to Jan. 28 to reply to Armstrong Utilities’ separate opposition will give both companies’ engineers time to further discuss the strength of WACP’s signal at the cable operator’s principal headend, the broadcaster said. “To be fruitful, these discussions must involve an exchange of engineering information and an analysis of the information by both parties,” Western Pacific said in a consent motion for extension posted Monday in docket 12-364 (http://xrl.us/boax3w). The talks could yield a deal to “informally resolve this dispute without the need for the Bureau to dedicate its resources to the consideration of the pleadings and the development of an order,” Western Pacific wrote in the motion that said Armstrong stated it won’t oppose the extension.