Ex parte filings: Time Warner Cable, in a filing...
Ex parte filings: Time Warner Cable, in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 10-71, continued to press the FCC to promptly start a rulemaking to change the way that retransmission-consent disputes are handled. Section 325 of the Communications Act lets…
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the agency order interim carriage during contract disputes between TV stations and subscription-video providers, company representatives told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. … Discovery Communications said the commission needs to protect diversity in programming offered by pay-TV providers. Executives discussed with an aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski the impact that the current retransmission system has on the ability of programmers unaffiliated with broadcasters guaranteed cable distribution to gain carriage “on reasonable terms and conditions,” said a filing in the docket Thursday.