Western Pacific Broadcast sought a delay to respond to the opposition of another cable operatornfacing the broadcaster's must-carry complaint for WACP Atlantic City, N.J. The station's owner wantsnuntil Feb. 13 to reply to Blue Ridge Cable, Western Pacific said in a filing Thursday in docket 12-365n(http://xrl.us/bobdvu). The extra four weeks will "facilitate discussions between the parties' engineers innan effort to informally resolve the signal quality issue" of whether WACP can be received OK at BluenRidge's principal headend, Western Pacific said. "To be fruitful, these discussions must involve an exchangenof engineering information and an analysis of the information by both parties, which will requirenfurther time." The talks could resolve the dispute "without the need" for the Media Bureau to develop annorder on the must-carry complaint, according to the motion for extension that said it won't be opposed bynBlue Ridge. The broadcaster made similar contentions in seeking a two-week extension to answer ArmstrongnUtilities's objection (CD Jan 16 p17).
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