Broadcast

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The FCC Media Bureau should reverse a market modification decision to give WHIO-TV Daytonrnmust-carry status in 23 communities in the area of Ohio’s Auglaize County, said Block Communicationsrnin an application for review (http://bit.ly/19YTik3). “Unless reversed, the decision will produce a resultrninconsistent with the purpose of the must carry rules and undermine, rather than further, localism,” saidrnthe filing. WHIO licensee Miami Valley Broadcasting — an affiliate of Cox Media — filed a requestrnTuesday for a time extension to respond to Block’s application for review (http://bit.ly/1kYUjg5). Blockrnowns Lima, Ohio, stations WLIO and WOHL, and had opposed WHIO’s must-carry petition. The bureaurndid not give enough weight to the Block stations’ historical carriage and “superior" signal coverage, saidrnthe application for review. The must-carry decision “directly conflicts with the statute, case precedent andrnestablished Commission policy,” said the Block application.