The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau seeks...
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau seeks comment on a Mediacom petition (CD July 25 p13) that asks the FCC to restrict programmers from requiring bundling and other concessions during negotiations for their content, said a bureau public notice…
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Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1s4VNsc). The public notice, included in Wednesday’s Daily Digest, gives 30 days to comment. An FCC decision to open a rulemaking in reaction to the petition would be a concern for content companies, said Guggenheim Partners analyst Paul Gallant in an email to investors Wednesday. He suggested it might not be coincidental that the Mediacom petition was put out for comment on the same day that Chairman Tom Wheeler sent a letter to Time Warner Cable over the company’s Los Angeles sports programming dispute (CD July 30 p7). (See separate report above in this issue.)