TV Max lacks a retransmission consent deal with...
TV Max lacks a retransmission consent deal with Washington Post Co.’s KPRC-TV Houston, the second company’s broadcast unit responded to an FCC Media Bureau email about a retrans complaint against the first firm (http://bit.ly/ZCnKGs). If TV Max carries the station…
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on its fiber ring, it doesn’t have the needed OK from the unit, Post-Newsweek, that division said in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 12-222. Univision had made a similar filing about two of its Texas stations (CD April 4 p13). An affiliate of TV Max told the Texas Public Utility Commission that it’s exempt from needing to get a retrans deal, said Post-Newsweek. “TVMax is unusual among franchised cable operators in that all of its subscribers reside in multi-dwelling unit” buildings, and because they use a master antenna to get the signals, it’s exempt from FCC retrans rules, said that company’s response to the PUC. It was included as an exhibit to Post-Newsweek’s FCC filing.