The retransmission consent process “is working as Congress intended” and...
The retransmission consent process “is working as Congress intended” and there’s “no need for the FCC to intervene,” Chairman Julius Genachowski was told by Belo Corp. CEO Dunia Shive, the company reported (http://xrl.us/bm4h84). The broadcaster was among several that met…
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with Genachowski, who earlier this week was in Las Vegas for the NAB Show. The FCC’s work on an order to require all TV stations to post online their paper public-inspection files and information contained in them on political ads also came up during meetings with Genachowski, ex parte filings in docket 00-168 show (http://xrl.us/bm4h8y). Belo continues to be concerned about disclosing online what political ads sell for, and “many other broadcasters share” that worry, Shive said. “Posting commercially sensitive rate information online, and making it instantly and easily available to advertisers and to other stations, would affect the broadcast advertising marketplace.” CEO Richard Boehne of E.W. Scripps also spoke with Genachowski to lobby against such disclosure. “By requiring broadcasters to post sensitive business information and rates online, the law may have the unintended consequence of putting broadcasters at a disadvantage against their competitors in the marketplace,” a filing said (http://xrl.us/bm4h9g). Genachowski used his speech at the Las Vegas convention to address broadcasters’ concerns about the public-file order, which is tentatively scheduled for a vote at next Friday’s commissioner meeting (CD April 18 p7).