TVMax insisted Friday in an FCC filing that...
TVMax insisted Friday in an FCC filing that it is not carrying multiple Texas TV stations without their permission, and that as of June 7 it had ceased carrying on its fiber ring (http://bit.ly/14K0AHh) the Univision, Fox and ABC affiliates…
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and the Post-Newsweek station that filed complaints against it in December (CD April 4 p13). However, in a filing with the Media Bureau Monday (http://bit.ly/11yxmoR), the broadcasters said their stations are still being carried without consent by an affiliate of TVMax. “The [TVMax] response does not disclose that June 7, 2012 is the exact same date that a commonly controlled corporate affiliate of TV Max began to lease TV Max’s fiber ring,” said the broadcasters’ filing, which calls the TVMax response “a shell game.” In their filing, the broadcasters cited documents on file with the Texas Public Utility Commission and the Texas secretary of state to show that TVMax, Broadband Ventures Six and Broadband Fiber are all commonly controlled corporate entities, sharing some executives and mailing addresses, and owning shares of each other’s stock. “TV Max’s focus on ‘its’ fiber ring, and its attempt to hide behind the purported transfer of control of the fiber ring to commonly controlled alter egos, is a transparent attempt to evade” questions about its apparent violations of the retransmission consent rules, said the broadcasters. An attorney for TVMax declined to comment, and a request for comment from the company itself received no response.