Complying with a federal appeals court decision, the FCC approved...
Complying with a federal appeals court decision, the FCC approved the reallocation of two western TV stations to communities in New Jersey and Delaware. The FCC’s Media Bureau on Monday approved the reallocation of PMCM TV’s KVNV Ely, Nevada, to…
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Middletown Township, N.J. (http://bit.ly/143Pvzc), and its KJWY Jackson, Wyo., to Wilmington, Del. (http://bit.ly/YN0RmJ). The stations requested the move after the 2009 DTV transition, citing a section of the Communications Act that allows VHF stations to volunteer to move to a state where no station is broadcasting on a VHF frequency. The FCC initially denied the requests but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit disagreed with the FCC’s reasoning and directed it to approve PMCM’s request (CD Dec 17 p4). The move will put the stations within the country’s first- and fourth-largest designated market areas.