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Retransmission Consent
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01/06/2023
Progress Report: Retrans Wheeling & Dealing Continues
While Comcast and the broadcasters got a renewal done before the calendar flipped to January, it appears Charter and Nexstar are still negotiating. Meanwhile, DISH and Cox Media are heating up the FCC’s inbox.
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12/16/2022
Retrans Roll Call: Plenty of Deals Going Down to the Wire
It looks like 2022 is going out with a retrans bang. There are a number of ongoing retransmission blackouts already underway and plenty of negotiations for renewals that are still taking place.
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09/07/2022
Effros: Rethinking
We have progressed as an industry from a simple business plan predicated on the notion that public airwaves could be used to deliver information (yes, including local news and “tornado alerts”) to local folks.
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08/31/2022
Effros: Compensation
The notion of “noncommercial” or “public” television, for instance, is simply out of date. Call it what you will, PBS now has commercials. The major one being an almost incessant din asking for compensation for its own programming.
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08/17/2022
Effros: Reverse Engineering
We appear to be in the middle of a massive experiment in reverse engineering regarding video distribution. The end result, I suspect, is going to prove that reverse engineering allows a potential competitor to find out that the original design actually worked, and it’s unlikely to be significantly improved.
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08/02/2022
Cable Wants Retrans Conditions on TEGNA
Cable industry stakeholders want the FCC to impose conditions on Standard General’s acquisition of TEGNA that would prevent it from jointly negotiating or sharing information tied to retransmission consent.