Making cable operators sell channels on “a pick-and-choose basis” was...
Making cable operators sell channels on “a pick-and-choose basis” was a “bad idea” when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and others tried to get a la carte mandates a decade ago, and is a “worse” idea now, said an opponent of…
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some communications regulation. “But Sen. McCain is back at it again, with his newly introduced ‘Television Consumer Freedom Act'” (CD May 15 p8), wrote President Randolph May of the Free State Foundation on the group’s blog Friday. “Whatever the situation over a decade ago when Sen. McCain first urged adoption of an a la carte requirement, it is indisputable that the video programming and distribution marketplace is now competitive.” May cited the FCC’s last report on video competition (CD July 23 p6; http://fcc.us/19FyQAo), which said that as of 2010 “significant trends” were “increased deployment of digital technology, consumers’ rising demands for access to video programming anywhere and anytime, and the evolution of online video from a niche service into a thriving industry.” It’s “truly” the “age of ‘TV Anytime, Everywhere,'” wrote May (http://bit.ly/14cH4iZ).