PMCM Seeks DC Circuit Rehearing
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit should reconsider a June ruling denying broadcaster PMCM’s appeal of the FCC's grant of a two-sided distributed transmission license to Connecticut Public Broadcasting’s WEDW Stamford (see 2106250042, said PMCM in a…
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petition for rehearing filed Monday (in Pacer) in docket 20-1334. “Several elements of the Judgment were based on basic misapprehensions of the FCC’s action” and PMCM’s arguments, the petition said. The court based its decision on an action the Media Bureau discussed but never took, and misunderstood a decision reached by the full FCC, the petition said. “Perhaps because the case was not presented for oral argument,” the court’s decision “effectively failed to review the FCC application that was challenged,” PMCM said, offering to participate in oral argument if the case is reheard. The FCC didn’t comment.