An FCC staffer asked Charter Communications for more information about...
An FCC staffer asked Charter Communications for more information about its carriage of KJLA Ventura, Calif., which wants the Media Bureau to require the operator’s Los Angeles-area systems to resume carrying it on analog tiers (CD March 7 p20). What’s…
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the “exact date” the outlet was “transitioned to digital-only on the Charter systems where KJLA is carried,” Senior Deputy Chief Steven Broeckaert of the bureau’s Policy Division asked a lawyer for Charter. Other questions in Friday’s letter (http://bit.ly/109Gnlr) in docket 13-63 are how many Charter L.A.-market subscribers got free digital equipment since must-carry stations including KJLA were transitioned to all-digital, and whether any customers didn’t get the gear. The lawyer was asked to provide information on how Charter customer service representatives handle queries about free digital equipment. Answers are due May 9, and KJLA has 10 days after the operator’s response to file a supplement. Charter has opposed KJLA’s request to the bureau, saying it properly notified the station and the operator’s subscribers that it was ending analog delivery of the broadcaster and that it provides free digital equipment to see the programming (http://bit.ly/YGZCn5).