Court Date Set For A La Carte Case

COURT DATE SET FOR A LA CARTE CASE
[SOURCE: Multichannel News 1/1, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Major cable operators and programmers on March 10 plan to ask a federal judge in Los Angeles to toss out an antitrust suit designed to force pay-TV distributors to allow consumers to buy channels on an individual or a la carte basis. The suit, filed in September, alleged that the industry practice of offering consumers dozens of channels in a package on a take-it-or-leave it basis runs counter to federal laws that outlaw the abuse of market power. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder, a 1997 appointee of President Clinton.
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