Media Bureau Grants Entravision Spectrum-Sharing Station Market Modification
The FCC Media Bureau granted Entravision’s request for market modification for its WJAL Silver Spring, Maryland, station, said an order Monday. The station’s market now includes portions of the Washington, D.C., designated market area in Maryland and Virginia served by…
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Comcast and Cox Communications. WJAL sold its spectrum in the incentive auction and is now the sharer in a channel sharing arrangement with WUSA Washington, the order said. Comcast opposed the market modification, arguing it was an improper use of the channel sharing rules, but the bureau ruled the FCC had “explicitly determined” that broadcaster relocations could be a basis to seek market modification.