FCC Should Close Program Access Loophole, ACA Says
Before expanding the definition of multichannel video programming distributors to include over-the-top video providers, the FCC should close the loophole in its program access rules that prevents their protections from being applied to the cable operators that buy content through…
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the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), American Cable Association said in an ex parte filing posted online Thursday (http://bit.ly/ZQqsAf). “Fairness dictates” that before expanding the scope of the program access rules to new entities, the FCC should allow NCTC to fall under the rules as “Congress explicitly intended,” ACA said. The FCC has a two-year-old Further NPRM on the matter in which it tentatively concluded the definition of a buying group should be updated as ACA has requested, ACA said.