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The FCC Media Bureau granted a waiver to...

The FCC Media Bureau granted a waiver to Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, allowing them to defer the must-carry request and channel position election for KVNV-TV Middletown Township in New Jersey. The cable systems are already carrying WFSB-TV Hartford,…

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Connecticut, or another station at the Channel 3 position, “and it is not technically feasible to position a second station there as well,” the bureau said in a letter posted in Monday’s Daily Digest (http://bit.ly/1pmLG0S). The multichannel video programming distributors can’t carry KVNV on Channel 3 without repositioning WFSB and possible other programming services, it said. The waiver allows the MVPDs to defer carriage until 90 days from the date of a final decision on the station’s virtual channel, the bureau said.