Small cable operators visited the FCC on retransmission consent, saying the...
Small cable operators visited the FCC on retransmission consent, saying the rules need changing even though many deals were signed with TV stations at year’s end (CD March 15 p6). “Just because ‘deals got done’ does not mean the market…
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is working or that the market isn’t saturated with anticompetitive conduct by broadcasters,” said American Cable Association President Matt Polka in a filing posted Tuesday to docket 10-71 (http://xrl.us/bmyzq5). The commission shouldn’t “be lulled into a false sense of security by utilizing the ‘deals got done’ metric,” the filing said. “Across-the-board, retransmission consent fees rose substantially higher than those charged in the preceding cycle” when deals were renewed, ACA said of executives from the association, Armstrong Utilities, Knology, MetroCast, Ritter Communications and Wide Open West’s meeting with Chief Bill Lake and others in the Media Bureau. Knology and some others’ retrans fees almost doubled for this year from last, ACA said.