PMCM Proceeding Restricted, Media Bureau Says

The FCC Media Bureau changed the ex parte rules for docket 14-150, on PMCM’s channel assignment, from permit-but-disclose to restricted, said a public notice Thursday. The grant of PMCM’s requests for an alternative PSIP or for emergency relief from the bureau’s channel assignment “would require a waiver of the Commission’s rules, and non-tariff waiver proceedings are restricted,” the PN said. The public interest “would be best served by designating this proceeding as restricted in order to ensure fairness to all parties and to promote efficiency in the resolution of the matters at hand,” the PN said. “This proceeding involves a small number of parties to a fact-specific dispute.”