PMCM Channel Request Denied
PMCM TV will have to operate its WJLP Middletown, New Jersey, station on virtual channel 33 instead of virtual channel 3, the FCC Media Bureau said in a declaratory ruling released Friday. It grants the request of Meredith Corp., licensee…
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of WFSB Hartford, which operates on virtual channel 3. PMCM had sought to operate on virtual channels 3.10 and up, though broadcasters are usually seen as having dominion over all the virtual channels in their market that start with their main channel digit (see 1409160043). The two stations have “significant overlap,” the bureau said. “The Commission has never assigned the same major channel number to separately owned stations for concurrent use in the same area, nor has it ever limited a broadcaster in the number of minor channel numbers it may use."The declaratory ruling also denies a waiver request from PMCM to be allowed to use virtual channel 3.10 and an emergency stay request also connected with the channel request.