Card Talk – Bill Introduced to Eliminate Set-Top Integration Ban
By | September 27, 2013
First, the Hill gives some serious attention to retransmission consent. Now, 2 members have heard cable’s age-old complaints about the set-top integration ban. The bill, introduced Thurs by Reps Bob Latta (R-OH) and Gene Green (D-TX), would do away with FCC rules that require boxes deployed after July 1, ’07 to feature separable security (generally a CableCARD). Read on to see who has backed the legislation and who is likely to speak out against it.
More top stories in today’s CableFAX Daily:
The FCC affirmed a Media Bureau order directing Comcast to place Bloomberg TV in news neighborhoods, per the conditions in the Comcast-NBCU Order. More about the order and Comcast’s statement here.
Sinclair is snatching up more stations, plunking down $90mln for 8 owned by New Age Media (7 full power, 1 low power).
The pace of signing up TV service providers, especially mid-tier operators, is above “historical norms” in the US for TiVo, CFO Naveen Chopra said at the Goldman Sachs investor conference Thurs. More on this and a potential DISH/Sprint Nextel collaboration.