The Communications Act doesn’t allow the FCC to mandate program c...
The Communications Act doesn’t allow the FCC to mandate program carriage on pay TV “absent a showing of wrongdoing,” DirecTV said. If the commission follows through on proposals for program carriage, DirecTV “would raise our subscriber’s rates, force us…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
to drop channels (which could include other unaffiliated channels), and hinder our ability to roll out high-definition channels, which in turn would harm the digital transition,” Stacy Fuller, DirecTV vice president of regulatory affairs, told Amy Blankenship, advisor to Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate. “DirecTV already has every incentive to carry programming its subscribers want,” according to an ex parte filed about the Nov. 16 phone call.