The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision to overturn the FCC’s “meddling in program carriage negotiations is welcome news,” said two senior Republicans on the House Commerce Committee in a joint news release Wednesday. On Tuesday the…
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court ruled that the FCC can’t force Comcast to carry the Tennis Channel on the same tier as the operator’s own Golf Channel and NBC Sports, in a 3-0 ruling (http://1.usa.gov/12gefp0). “American viewers have unprecedented choice in the content they watch, the services that deliver it, and the devices that display it,” said House Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., and House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. “In a dynamic market characterized by increased competition, rapidly developing technologies, and evolving business models, government intervention typically increases costs for consumers and reduces innovation. Our hope is that Acting [FCC] Chairwoman [Mignon] Clyburn and her eventual successor will take note of this decision and begin reducing the agency’s intervention in the television marketplace.”