NCTA attorneys met with aides to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai...
NCTA attorneys met with aides to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai to argue that a TV station that negotiates retransmission consent agreements on behalf of another in the same market should be deemed to have an attributable interest in that station,…
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an ex parte notice said (http://xrl.us/bn99ct). “Such joint negotiations unfairly restrain competition and give broadcasters undue leverage to extract excessive ... fees.” The lawyers pointed to a Justice Department filing in a Texas federal court that regarded such arrangements as a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.