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Five Fox affiliates and two PBS stations will stop broadcasting J...

Five Fox affiliates and two PBS stations will stop broadcasting June 12, we found by going over FCC figures. A Fox affiliate and four public stations have already stopped broadcasting -- gone “silent” in commission terminology. Mississippi, Montana, Puerto…

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Rico, New York and Washington are each losing three stations and Arkansas four. Under FCC rules, stations that stay off the air longer than a year lose their licenses, a commission spokesman said Wednesday. Nexstar is the only publicly traded company that owns a station ending all broadcasting: KARZ Little Rock, Ark., a myNetworkTV affiliate that’s now silent. Some of the 35 stations that won’t make the digital transition (CD June 4 p2) will continue as multicast channels of other stations in their markets, Media Bureau Associate Chief Eloise Gore told the FCC at Wednesday’s meeting. In total, 974 stations will go all-digital June 12, commission officials said.