Cable operator executives visited the FCC separately last week to...
Cable operator executives visited the FCC separately last week to discuss the commissions’ rules affecting the market for pay-TV programming, ex parte notices show. Pat Esser, Cox Communications’ president, met with aides to commissioners and Media Bureau officials to discuss…
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retransmission consent and volume discounting for programming networks, an ex parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bnrtjv). Mediacom Chairman Rocco Commisso held separate meetings with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi and all four commissioners, according to an ex parte notice (http://xrl.us/bnrtj7). Commisso discussed “how consumer are being harmed because of the absence of effective competitive or regulatory constraints on wholesale programming costs,” the notice said.