DC Circuit Rejects PMCM Appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected PMCM’s appeal of FCC rulings preventing its WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, from being broadcast on virtual channel 3, said a judgment issued Wednesday and posted the next day by…
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the agency (see 1805170072). “The Court has afforded the issues full consideration and has determined that they do not warrant a published opinion,” the judgment said. “PMCM argues that the FCC misinterpreted the relevant PSIP [program and system information protocol] Standard and arbitrarily assigned virtual channel 33 to WJLP,” the ruling said. “We reject both of these arguments.” FCC interpretation of the rules “controls,” the D.C. Circuit said in an unsigned, four-page ruling: Harms caused by operating on channel 33 are “easily fixable,” it said.