The CEO of a cable operator that has had blackouts shared...
The CEO of a cable operator that has had blackouts shared with Senate Commerce Committee members a Sept. 1 letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski saying the agency’s lack of action on new retransmission consent rules was “inexplicable inaction” (CD…
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Sept 2 p3). Rocco Commisso said Mediacom would agree to not raise rates for basic and expanded-basic video service for two years if TV stations and cable operators freeze what they charge multichannel video programming distributors for carriage. “With your backing, I am confident that a significant number of MVPDs would join the freeze,” Commisso wrote the committee about Tuesday’s hearing on retrans. (See separate story above.) “Despite the clear and compelling evidence that the immense power held by a handful of media giants has created a dysfunctional marketplace in which the harm to consumers is compounding every year, the FCC has failed to act,” Commisso wrote. Thursday’s letter to the committee also was posted in commission docket 10-71 (http://xrl.us/bnhw6v).