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TVNewsCheck‘s quarterly quick briefing on the legal and regulatory proceedings affecting broadcasters from communications attorneys David Oxenford and David O’Connor. Note: This story is available to TVNewsCheck Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you log in at the very top right corner of the site or in the Stay Connected Box that appears in the right column of virtually every page on the site. If you don’t see Member Home, you will need to click Log In or Subscribe.
Auxiliary Facilities
In 2015, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to eliminate outdated rules in order to promote the conversion of analog remote pickup facilities to digital. The NPRM is available
here. The pleading cycle in this proceeding closed in 2015.
CALM Act/Loud Commercials
In 2011, Congress enacted the CALM Act with the aim of ending loud commercials on TV, and the FCC’s rules implementing the CALM Act went into effect in 2012. To comply, TV stations must use equipment that adheres to the A/85:2013 standards adopted by the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC), a standard that has been in place since June 2015. See our summary of CALM Act requirements
customers, some lawmakers and cablevision reps say they don t think it s fair to punish people sitting at home paying their cable bills, but reps say the company has been taken for a ride long enough and losing millions of dollars in a two-year dispute over retransmission fees. wabc wins to update its website telling viewers how they can still watch channel seven and the oscars in the tri state area without cablevision and without standing outside the studios in time square there, viewers can get a digital antenna to hook up to tv s and switch to a satellite or fiber optic provider and the walt disney company argues they charge $18 rah month for basic broadcast signals, but doesn t pass on profits for abc programming to them. cablevision argues that it pays more than 200 million dollars a year to disney for abc programming. and that disney is demanding 40 million more for those retransmission consent costs, well, just a short while ago
and today all those cablevision customers are now seeing this. we have spent countless hours and meetings with abc executives and have made numerous offers. in fact, we offered to pay abc as much or more than what we pay other broadcast networks in the area. now both sides issued dueling statements, each blaming the other guy on the heels of one of the biggest nights in tv the oscars. the walt disney cable cablevision charges customers $18 a month for basic broadcast signals but doesn t pass on any of the profit for abc programming to them. a statement released by the president and general manager of wabctv reads cablevision pocketed almost $8 billion last year and now customers aren t getting what they pay for again. cablevision argues that it pays more than $200 million a year to disney nor abc programming and that disney is demanding 40 million nor retransmission consent fees. many high ranking government