The fundamental problems with retransmission consent remain and...
The fundamental problems with retransmission consent remain and will continue to get worse, Time Warner Cable said in a letter to the FCC (http://bit.ly/16g5vRt). The deal between CBS and TWC “illustrates almost everything that is wrong with the regulatory process…
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applicable to retransmission consent -- and how far the commission’s implementation of the statute has strayed from congressional intent,” TWC said. The cable company and CBS ended a month-long retransmission consent dispute last month (CD Sept 4 p2). The FCC has abdicated its responsibility to ensure reasonable rates, “to police bad-faith negotiating tactics, and to safeguard the public interest more generally,” it said. That retransmission consent deals generally get done without blackouts “does not show that the commission’s retransmission consent rules are achieving Congress’s objectives,” TWC said. The FCC should preclude broadcasters from pulling their signals during retrans consent disputes and preclude broadcasters from using sharing agreements to collude with competing stations in negotiating retrans consent agreements, it said.