NAB claimed that a Time Warner Cable executive’s...
NAB claimed that a Time Warner Cable executive’s letter to a House Judiciary Subcommittee contained “erroneous accusations” about the testimony of NAB outside counsel Gerard Waldron during a subcommittee hearing last week. Claims by TWC Chief Government Relations Officer Gail…
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MacKinnon that TWC has no power to impose restrictions on broadcasters in dealing with the company’s competitors is contradicted by its own public statements, NAB said in a letter to members of the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet (http://bit.ly/1aLzpeQ). TWC CEO Glenn Britt said in June that “some of TWC’s contracts explicitly bar media outlets from providing content to online pay-TV services,” NAB said. NAB urged the lawmakers to reject “the disinformation campaign of Time Warner Cable.” During the hearing, Waldron, a Covington Burling attorney, said the retransmission consent model is working (CD Sept 11 p7). Waldron’s suggestion that TWC “could try to preclude CBS from dealing with any of TWC’s competitors is preposterous,” MacKinnon’s letter said. TWC didn’t seek any foreclosure of distribution agreements between CBS and other parties, it said.