CBS: Let Market Decide Pay TV Carriage

CBS: LET MARKET DECIDE PAY TV CARRIAGE
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
CBS lobbyists have been making the rounds at the Federal Communications Commission urging regulators to let the market solve carriage disputes involving local TV stations and cable operators, satellite providers and other pay TV distributors. CBS is pitching a free-market approach on the heels of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision Jan. 6 to pull 22 stations from Mediacom Communications cable systems serving 700,000 subscribers in 13 states in one of the toughest cable retransmission-consent fights in many years. The unresolved clash between Sinclair and Mediacom has involved the FCC, the federal courts and some members of Congress.
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