Senate Commerce Committee GOP Posts Video Promoting 'Local Choice'

The Senate Commerce Committee Republicans tweeted a link from a video promoting/explaining the Local Choice proposal of Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D- WV) and ranking member Sen John Thune (R- SD).

That proposal, which they want to include as part of satellite license reauthorization legislation being teed up for September, would allow multichannel video programming distributor subscribers to choose whether they want to pay for stations who elect payment for retransmission consent. That also means the cable operators would not be required to deliver all retransmission stations on the basic tier, since they would not have to deliver them at all to viewers who opted not to pay for them.