Pay-TV providers have taken “inconsistent positions” on retransmission consent, where some...
Pay-TV providers have taken “inconsistent positions” on retransmission consent, where some seek standstills when talks break down as contracts end, and on program carriage where some multichannel video programming providers seek to prevent the pauses, two nonprofits said. The FCC…
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should “dismiss their arguments against a standstill in the program carriage context,” representatives from the Media Access Project and Public Knowledge said, a filing posted Monday in docket 07-42 recounted. “The fear of retaliation is very real for many independent programmers, some of whom fear coming to the Commission” to complain that cable operators favored affiliated channels over independent networks seeking carriage, the filing said. It reported on meetings with aides to Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Robert McDowell, though Public Knowledge only attended the first gathering. HDNet and the Tennis Channel also were represented at the gatherings as foes and proponents of extra program carriage rules lobby the FCC before an order and rulemaking on the subject are released (CD June 24 p13).