A group seeking new retransmission consent rules “couldn’t agree more”...
A group seeking new retransmission consent rules “couldn’t agree more” with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski saying at the Cable Show Tuesday that TV station shared services agreements can raise problems (CD May 23 p2). SSAs are among the issues pay-TV…
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companies, many of which are members of the American Television Alliance, want the FCC to tighten rules against. “Collusion in retrans negotiations is giving TV stations unchecked market power to threaten multiple station blackouts and spark skyrocketing fees,” the alliance said. “To protect consumers, the FCC should ban separately owned broadcast stations in the same market from coordinating these negotiations and tighten scrutiny of SSAs.” Broadcasters have said SSAs let separately owned stations share resources within a market, helping give them money to air more news and other programming. An NAB spokesman declined to comment.