ACA Asks FCC to Prohibit Some Affiliation Switch, Multicast Moves

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The American Cable Association wants the Federal Communications Commission to prevent television stations from swapping affiliations in a market so that one station owner programs two of the Top Four networks and to disallow a Top Four network-programmed station in a market from carrying a second Top Four net on a multicast stream. ACA argues broadcasters will subvert the FCC's new prohibitions on coordinated retransmission consent. Swaps and multicast moves, it argues, would result in the same undue leverage and potential harms the FCC's recent rule changes were meant to prevent.


ACA Asks FCC to Prohibit Some Affiliation Switch, Multicast Moves