Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554
Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Second Periodic Review of the Commission’s ) MB Docket No. 03-15 Rules and Policies Affecting the Conversion to ) Digital Television ) To: The Commission CONSOLIDATED REPLY TO OPPOSITIONS At stake in this matter is the continuation or loss of service to nearly 350,000 viewers of existing DTV service. As New York Times Management Services (“NYTMS”), licensee of WHNT-TV, ch. 19 and WHNT-DT, ch. 59, Huntsville, AL (“WHNT”) explained in its Request for Preservation of Maximized Service, by ensuring that WHNT’s maximized service area is preserved in the Final DTV Table of Allotments, the Commission will uphold core public interest mandates: protecting consumers from loss of service and the promotion of digital television service to the public. Moreover, viewers in WHNT’s maximized service area can be protected without materially affecting viewers’ access to any other DTV service. In opposing WHNT’s request, WDBB-TV, Inc., licensee of WDBB(TV) and permittee of WDBB-DT, Bessemer, AL (“WDBB”), and ETC Communications, Inc., licensee of WYLE(TV) and permittee of WYLE-DT, Florence, AL (“WYLE”), seek to elevate their claim to a “tentative channel designation” to a level that is inconsistent with the Commission’s rules and its core public interest mandate.1 As discussed below, these tentative channel designations do 1 See ETC Communications, Inc., Opposition to Request of WHNT-DT for Preservation of Maximized Service Area, MB Docket No. 03-15 (filed April 18, 2006) (“WYLE Opposition”); WDBB-TV, Inc., Opposition, MB Docket No.
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