The FCC should issue a rulemaking notice on...
The FCC should issue a rulemaking notice on whether the sports blackout rule remains in the public interest, the Sports Fan Coalition told an aide to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, said an ex parte filing released Thursday. It referenced a…
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June letter from Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., making the same request (CD p12 June 20). Lifting the rule may not have a “practical effect” because of restrictive retransmission consent agreements that keep multichannel video programming distributors from using a broadcaster’s signal in “out-of-market” areas and “compulsory copyright licensing regimes that limit MVPDs’ ability to import distant network signals to households throughout a given” market, the ex parte said. The coalition and FCC staff also discussed whether the commission has statutory authority to revise the blackout rule, since “Congress never directed the Commission to issue the Sports Blackout Rule in the first place,” the ex parte said (http://bit.ly/16vhNPQ).