Western Pacific Broadcast sought a delay to respond to the...
Western Pacific Broadcast sought a delay to respond to the opposition of another cable operator facing the broadcaster’s must-carry complaint for WACP Atlantic City, N.J. The station’s owner wants until Feb. 13 to reply to Blue Ridge Cable, Western Pacific…
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said in a filing Thursday in docket 12-365 (http://xrl.us/bobdvu). The extra four weeks will “facilitate discussions between the parties’ engineers in an effort to informally resolve the signal quality issue” of whether WACP can be received OK at Blue Ridge’s principal headend, Western Pacific said. “To be fruitful, these discussions must involve an exchange of engineering information and an analysis of the information by both parties, which will require further time.” The talks could resolve the dispute “without the need” for the Media Bureau to develop an order on the must-carry complaint, according to the motion for extension that said it won’t be opposed by Blue Ridge. The broadcaster made similar contentions in seeking a two-week extension to answer Armstrong Utilities’s objection (CD Jan 16 p17).