A group of pay-TV providers pointed the finger at broadcasters for...
A group of pay-TV providers pointed the finger at broadcasters for retransmission consent blackouts, hours after NAB criticized three of the coalition’s members for being involved in most retrans disputes this year (CD July 19 p21). “NAB’s offering ’sympathy’ for…
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viewers currently subject to blacked-out programming on Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Dish is dishonest at best,” the American Television Alliance said in a news release late Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnhfqc). “It is the broadcasters, the so-called ’stewards of the public airwaves,’ that use outdated government rules to yank their signals from consumers.” The coalition didn’t dispute that the three multichannel video programming distributors were involved in three-quarters of TV service disruptions in 2012, an NAB spokesman said. “Only 0.3 percent of America’s 5,851 pay TV companies have ever been involved in a loss of broadcast TV service,” he said. “This suggests a concerted effort by three of the largest pay TV companies to manufacture a crisis that does not really exist, rather than compete in the marketplace."