CWA Says Fuse's AT&T Complaint Indicates Threats to Diverse Media
Fuse Media's program carriage complaint against AT&T (see 2012140052) illustrates how media consolidation threatens diverse media ownership, the Communication Workers of America said in a docket 20-426 posting Tuesday. It said independent programming is threatened when a vertically integrated distributor…
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discriminates by favoring its own affiliated programming. The union said it supported AT&T's takeover of Time Warner but has since experienced "improper" AT&T conduct "inspired by the same misguided focus on Time Warner Media’s bottom line." Asked for comment, AT&T pointed us to its previous denial of the allegations.