The FCC shouldn’t change its program access rules...
The FCC shouldn’t change its program access rules to create the 3 million subscriber “safe harbor” cap for buying group membership proposed in the commission’s ownership proceeding, said Cox in an ex parte filing in docket 12-68 (http://bit.ly/15ETqhr). Instead, the…
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commission should ensure that small- and mid-sized multichannel video program distributors can “gain the protections of reformed buying group rules,” the cable provider said. The American Cable Association has asked the commission to create the safe harbor (CD July 9 p14) for MVPDs of up to 3 million subscribers; Cox has between 4 and 5 million subscribers, according to Craig Moffett of Moffett Research (CD Aug 5 p19).