RCN CEO Jim Holanda wrote the FCC to urge commissioners...
RCN CEO Jim Holanda wrote the FCC to urge commissioners not to allow a ban on exclusive contracts among cable operators and the networks they own to expire next month. A draft order that circulated last week would allow the…
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ban to expire (CD Sept 17 p2). The remedies that would remain available to competitive pay-TV providers in the absence of the exclusivity ban involve lengthy and costly adjudications, the letter said (http://xrl.us/bnrdz7). “Were some future cable-affiliated Red Sox channel to refuse to sell to us, RCN would not be able to afford to spend a year or more arbitrating the issue or compiling evidence of harm for an unfair practices complaint,” it said. Lawyers for DirecTV also continued meeting with FCC officials to push for changes to the draft order, ex parte notices show (http://xrl.us/bnrd2u). Meanwhile, NCTA lawyers also visited commission offices to argue that the exclusivity ban is no longer necessary, an ex parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bnrd28).