Cable systems are allowed to carry out-of-market stations if they are on the list for their county or city. The significantly-viewed list was originally developed in 1972, showing which stations had significant broadcast viewership in each location. KIMT is the official CBS affiliate for Rochester and presents newscasts from a studio in the city, but has long competed for CBS viewership on cable due to the status of WCCO-TV/4 (Minneapolis) as a “significantly-viewed” station in Rochester. The petition from Allen Media’s KIMT/3 (Mason City, IA) was first reported here last year. The FCC has granted a petition for special relief from the Rochester market’s CBS affiliate and issued an order that will result in WCCO-TV’s CBS programming being dropped from cable in the Med City. Thanks for any help that you can provide! - Frustrated Consumer. I think that we "pay through the nose" for even basic cable and don't feel that we should pay even more for what I consider a local station. The Spectrum representative (located where?) to whom I was assigned when I called tried to tell me that WCCO doesn't even exist! So I was wondering/hoping that you might have better success in discerning why we're no longer able to access Channel 4. Another reader wrote: WCCO has been our favorite CBS affiliate for years, and suddenly Spectrum has elected to remove it from our offerings.
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