FCC program access rules on distributors forming...
FCC program access rules on distributors forming buying groups “contravene the clear intent of Congress,” said the American Cable Association in an ex parte filing Friday (http://bit.ly/13wWsdK) requesting increased liability protection for the National Cable Television Cooperative, the buying group…
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some ACA members want to work with. The ACA filing came on the heels of a filing from NBCUniversal asking the commission to take the opposite tack and leave program access rules alone (CD July 8 p13). ACA repeated its request for the commission to create a “safe harbor” subscriber level, “such that an MVPD with no more than the safe harbor number of subscribers, that is a member of a buying group, is presumptively entitled to participate in master agreements between the buying group and cable-affiliated programmers,” the ex parte said. ACA wants the safe harbor set “so that all MVPDs who currently purchase a substantial share of their programming through a buying group are covered,” said the ex parte.