Many limits on multichannel video programming distributors carrying games blacked...
Many limits on multichannel video programming distributors carrying games blacked out on broadcast TV because they aren’t sold out would remain if the FCC junked the sports blackout rule, said the Sports Fan Coalition (CD March 16 p14). It’s gotten…
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MVPD backing and has sought a rulemaking to end the rule. Section 111 of the Copyright Act makes importing the signal of an out-of-market TV station “cost-prohibitive” for a cable operator, the coalition wrote in a document it gave an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. DBS companies in most cases wouldn’t be able to import distant signals in such circumstances, said a copy of Wednesday’s handout in docket 12-3 (http://xrl.us/bmzs5u). It said the network non-duplication rule that covers any game broadcast on a network would apply to all MVPDs.