The FCC has ruled that putting infomercials on local origination channels does not convert them into local-origination programming that would not be subject to the leased access rules. In a finding for Mississippi-based leased access programmer StogMedia, the FCC said that Time Warner will have to stop charging StogMedia for per-insertion fees for its leased access programming unless it charges the same fees to non-leased access programming, specifically infomercials it ran on a local origination channel. Time Warner must also refund the fees it has already been charging.
