Both sides in a cable program carriage dispute before the...
Both sides in a cable program carriage dispute before the FCC met Monday with Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael Copps to update them on the case, as expected (CD Aug 18 p2), agency and industry officials said. They said no…
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settlement of the dispute, in which the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network contends it should be carried to Time Warner Cable’s subscribers in North Carolina, appears to be in the offing. Rather, the Monday meeting was an opportunity for representatives for the programmer, whose channel carries games of baseball’s Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, and the cable operator to update commissioners on their case, agency and industry officials said. A draft order from the Media Bureau for a full-commission vote to overturn an earlier bureau decision and not require MASN to be carried to Time Warner Cable’s approximately 1.5 million basic-cable subscribers in North Carolina hasn’t yet circulated, an agency official said. It’s still expected to circulate soon. A bureau spokeswoman declined to comment, as did spokesmen for both companies.