Media Bureau Wants To Know Carriage Status of PMCM's WJLP

The FCC Media Bureau wants information on whether PMCM's WJLP Middletown Township, New Jersey, is being carried by pay-TV carriers, according to an information request released Wednesday. PMCM has filed several related applications for review seeking to overturn bureau decisions related to its attempt to use the same main program and system information protocol (PSIP) channel as Meredith’s WFSB Hartford. The bureau had ruled that multichannel video programming distributors must implement PMCM's must-carry request by Sept. 3. or that PMCM could pursue carriage on cable channel 33. One of PMCM's applications for review is against that order and is still pending, opposed by Cablevision, Ion and Time Warner Cable. However, WJLP recently told viewers on its website that “WJLP Me-TV is coming to Cablevision on channel 33, Comcast on Channel 8, and Time Warner Cable on 1239 in early September!,” the bureau said. As a result, the bureau wants to know if WJLP is being carried by those MVPDs, what channel it's on, and how the responding parties feel the situation affects the application for review.