This is not making sense to me. What would make sense is the Jackson ABC declaring exclusivity to prevent the Memphis ABC from being shown on DirecTV. Likewise, the Fox in Jackson would want to declare exclusivity to prevent the Memphis Fox affiliate from being broadcast. Now if there were sister stations from the same network, then what you suggest above would make sense.
the county he is in according to the FCC qualifies for Memphis locals as significantly viewed so the Jackson locals dont have a pot to piss in about blocking them. This only works in 2 counties. Again in Jackson proper Directv can only carry the Jackson locals. Cable carries Memphis Big4 (except ABC) and PBS. While I agree with you on the Fox thing again Memphis Fox is considered Significantly Viewed in those 2 counties.
Also, what does the Jackson CBS care about HD from some other station not owned by themselves? All existing Jackson stations should declare exclusivity.
they do...in the county they are in. But in the case of gpollock he is in the next county which gets Jackson locals per Nielsen but also Memphis as SV.
Technically the Memphis stations are SV in Madison County (where Jackson proper is)
WBBJ-TV, 7, Jackson, TN
+WJKT, 16, Jackson, TN (formerly WMTU)
WREG-TV, 3, Memphis, TN (formerly WREC)
WMC-TV, 5, Memphis, TN
WHBQ-TV, 13, Memphis, TN
+WPTY-TV, 24, Memphis, TN
So we're going with the double FCC standard here. Cable can carry Memphis (and they do but the ABC) but satellite can't. In the case of CBS because the local one isnt in HD I think cable has the right to carry a neighboring station that is in HD. I know locally in Mankato, MN they do that. Fox is SD only locally (subchannel off CBS) so cable carries Fox Minneapolis. They can black out the duplicate programming on the SD station but not the HD version. Satellite can't so again the double standard.
then why is the FCC still enforcing these punitive rules
only on Dish Network?
because again Dish lost a court case back in 06 when they were giving distants to folks who technically didnt qualify for them. One of the rules is if locals are available you can't get distants but back then folks were getting both. Heck I was one of them. I used our cabin address which qualified me for all nets but CBS. Even though Minneapolis locals were available and I had them Dish still allowed me to get ABC, NBC and FOX from different markets. At one time there were I think 6 cities available. NY, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Dallas. I remember having Fox from Denver and LA, ABC from Chicago and NY and NBC from Atlanta and I think LA along with my locals.
I think Dish is content with being able to import missing stations to markets than SV. Directv does it in extreme cases.