WXTV License Partnership, G.P
Federal Communications Commission DA 99-733 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In re Petition of: ) ) WXTV License Partnership, G.P. ) CSR-5327-M ) Petition for Special Relief Concerning ) Carriage of WXTV, Paterson, New Jersey, ) on Certain Cablevision Cable Systems ) in the New York ADI ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Adopted: April 16, 1999 Released: April 16, 1999 By the Deputy Chief, Cable Services Bureau: INTRODUCTION 1. WXTV License Partnership, G.P., licensee of commercial broadcast television station WXTV-TV, (Ch. 41--Paterson, New Jersey) ("WXTV") has requested that the Commission compel carriage of WXTV on its over the air channel in communities served by several Cablevision headends. 1 Cablevision filed an opposition to the petition to which WXTV filed a reply. BACKGROUND 2. -·Pursuant lo Section 614 of the Communications Act ("Act") and implementing rules adopted by the Commission in its Report and Order in MM Docket 92-259,2 commercial television broadcast stations are entitled to assert mandatory carriage rights on cable systems located within the station's market. A station's market for this purpose is its "area of dominant influence," or ADI, as 1According to WXTV, the affected cable communities are served by various systems with headends in: Bayonne, Bergenfield, Elizabeth, Freehold, Jackson, Lakewood, Mahwah, Mamaroneck, Mine Hill, Oakland, Paterson, Piscataway, Seaside Heights and Wall/Asbury, New Jersey; Allamuchy, Amagansett, East Hampton, Farmingville, Hauppauge, Hicks-ville, Hicksville-Final, Huntington, Islip, Lynbrook, North Haven, North Salem, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Warwick, West Nyack, and Yonkers, New York; and Bridgeport and Norwalk, Connecticut (collectively referred to herein as the "Cable Communities").
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