The FCC shouldn’t put on hold June’s viewability order letting systems...
The FCC shouldn’t put on hold June’s viewability order letting systems with analog and digital channels no longer carry TV stations guaranteed cable distribution in both formats and allowing digital-only carriage of must-carry broadcasters, the NCTA said. Its opposition filing…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
was against a request for stay by Agape Church, London Broadcasting, NAB and Una Vez Mas of the rules pending review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (CD Aug 3 p5). “While Movants seek to portray the decision to allow this dual-carriage requirement to sunset as some sort of unexplained and unanticipated change of course, expiration of the rule was expressly provided for and anticipated when the rule was adopted” in 2007, said the NCTA’s filing posted Thursday to docket 98-120 (http://xrl.us/bnj3oj). That the commission has stated “a signal carried by a cable system must be viewable leaves open the question of whether the signal must be viewable without any set-top equipment, whether it must be viewable using equipment that all customers must be forced to purchase and install, or whether it is viewable so long as equipment is readily available to customers who wish to view it,” the association said. “The Commission’s choice of the latter as most appropriate for purposes of its implementation of Section 614 is clearly a permissible and reasonable interpretation, which is entitled to -- and is likely to receive -- deference from a reviewing court."