The American Television Alliance...
The American Television Alliance backed the Department of Justice “shining a light” on “dubious practices” by broadcaster resource-sharing deals that can involve separately owned stations negotiating with multichannel video programming distributors for retransmission consent, said ATVA in a news release…
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Friday night. Justice asked the commission to attribute joint sales agreements (JSAs) for ownership cap purposes, in a filing posted earlier Friday to docket 09-182, which also shows broadcasters and MVPDs continue lobbying the FCC on media ownership and retrans (http://bit.ly/OtUbK0). The average retrans fee Cable America Missouri pays ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC affiliates when those stations coordinate carriage talks is 19 percent higher than for separately negotiated stations, said the cable company in a filing posted to the docket Friday (http://bit.ly/1hif0kZ). JSAs “can be vital to allowing new, diverse entrants” into the TV business, wrote the general manager of Tougaloo College’s WLOO Vicksburg, Miss., which has a JSA with WDBD Jackson. Justice said JSAs should be attributed under media ownership quotas, which would limit the ability of stations to enter into them. “Without the JSA, we would not be able to operate the station as effectively as we do,” wrote the WLOO representative (http://bit.ly/1cgzMNI).