guppy_fishPremium
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Lakeland, FL
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Re: [HD] FCC Rules on Verizon Access to MSG HD The FCC can only apply the mandate when the content is "owned" by the cable company.
The FCC has made a determination that they have no legal authority to do, the FCC is not a court and only a court can determine if the present ownership meets what the law was written to apply too.
MSG was sold, its 100% a separate company and only a court, not three FCC commissioners can make a determination otherwise |
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 nycdavePremium,MVM
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Melville, NY
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·Verizon FiOS
| said by guppy_fish:The FCC can only apply the mandate when the content is "owned" by the cable company.
The FCC has made a determination that they have no legal authority to do, the FCC is not a court and only a court can determine if the present ownership meets what the law was written to apply too.
MSG was sold, its 100% a separate company and only a court, not three FCC commissioners can make a determination otherwise
Your ownership argument has no factual basis here. It has been proven before the FCC that Cablevision/MSG has withheld this must-have programming as a way to hinder multiple competitors in the market - plain and simple. You are reading too far into the corporate structure of Cablevision/MSG, which has zero to do with the issue of their behavior (which the FCC ruled on). |
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guppy_fishPremium
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Lakeland, FL
kudos:1 | You are reading Zero into what the FCC has in determining how the rule apply's to CV
Time will tell .. so far for 3+ years I have been right |
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mets18
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New York, NY | Even if they aren't the same company couldn't MSG be engaging in non-competitive behavior by not offering the HD feeds to FIOS? What if ESPN decided to pull their HD feeds from a cable system? I would think that system would pursue legal action. |
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