 matcarlPremium
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | reply to skohly
Re: BeIn, Pac-12 said by skohly:Wah? The FCC went into trench warfare with MSG over this. Now they are going to just let the rule go away? That makes no sense
It doesn't make sense at all, but here's the story
»www.latimes.com/entertainment/en···99.story |
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| Although all the details of the FCC's plans to jettison the program access rules are not known, there is not expected to be any sort of broad exemption for sports programming, a senior FCC official said.
Instead, a pay-TV distributor can file a complaint to the FCC alleging unfair acts of competition if a cable operator that owns a regional sports network is refusing to sell that channel to a rival service. |
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matcarlPremium
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | It is very bizarre. They had a rule in place which no one followed, now cable operators were finally winning the battle and the FCC drops the rule? They never really enforced it anyway though, that's why there were so many complaints. I'm surprised we eventually got MSG, I only hope we don't lose them now. |
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skohly
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Township Of Washington, NJ | If this is the case you know MSG/Cablevision(please don't tell me they are separate companies) will pull the plug on Verizon day 1 and wait to fight it out again. |
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| said by skohly:If this is the case you know MSG/Cablevision(please don't tell me they are separate companies) will pull the plug on Verizon day 1 and wait to fight it out again they already reached a contract agreement with Verizon so they can't do this until the contract runs out |
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skohly
join:2009-08-19
Township Of Washington, NJ | said by TitusTroy:said by skohly:If this is the case you know MSG/Cablevision(please don't tell me they are separate companies) will pull the plug on Verizon day 1 and wait to fight it out again they already reached a contract agreement with Verizon so they can't do this until the contract runs out That in fact makes sense but with Cablevision you never know. They could try and make the case they signed the contract under duress. |
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matcarlPremium
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | said by skohly:said by TitusTroy:said by skohly:If this is the case you know MSG/Cablevision(please don't tell me they are separate companies) will pull the plug on Verizon day 1 and wait to fight it out again they already reached a contract agreement with Verizon so they can't do this until the contract runs out That in fact makes sense but with Cablevision you never know. They could try and make the case they signed the contract under duress. Right, they could say they signed under pressure of that law, but if it doesn't exist anymore, they may say they aren't obligated anymore. Who knows. |
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