Ex partes: The Coalition for Competitive Access to Content still...
Ex partes: The Coalition for Competitive Access to Content still wants closed the so-called terrestrial loophole that lets cable operators withhold from rivals programming they don’t use satellites to deliver. The “harm and need have been fully documented,” said…
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handouts from meetings last week with FCC member Mignon Clyburn and an aide to Commissioner Michael Copps. “Program access rules need to cover all delivered formats and technologies used to distribute vertically integrated programming.” AT&T, DirecTV, Knology, RCN, SureWest, USTelecom and Verizon and others sent representatives. … Cablevision asked the FCC to change the program-withholding ban so it doesn’t apply to markets where an analysis shows “durable competition exists.” New York, served by the cable operator and five rivals, is such an area, a Friday Cablevision ex parte filing said. “Rather than expand the scope of the program access rules, the Commission should relax the exclusivity ban in those local markets where competition among video distributors has taken firm root.”