Disney Continues Pro-Bundling Effort
Disney is continuing its pro-bundling lobbying on the FCC eighth floor. In an ex parte filing Thursday in docket 16-41, Disney recapped meetings its executives had with various FCC commissioners and staff at which it repeated its earlier arguments during…
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the agency's review of the totality of circumstances test (see 1606170039) that bundling "is consistent with competitive marketplace considerations." Disney representatives at the meetings included Government Relations Senior Vice President Richard Bates and Global Distribution President Ben Pyne, and FCC staff included Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel, Michael O'Rielly and Mignon Clyburn, plus Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake and Chairman Tom Wheeler aide Jessica Almond.