Leased Commercial Access - Development of Competition and Diversity in Video Programming Distribution and Carriage (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Leased Commercial Access - Development of Competition and Diversity in Video Programming Distribution and Carriage (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 In 1993, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules pertaining to carriage of video programming vendors by multichannel video programming distributors ("MVPDs"), known as the "program carriage rules." The rules are intended to benefit consumers by promoting competition and diversity in the video programming and video distribution markets. In this document, the FCC amends its rules to improve the procedures for addressing complaints alleging violations of the program carriage rules. This book contains: - The complete text of the Leased Commercial Access - Development of Competition and Diversity in Video Programming Distribution and Carriage (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Leased Commercial Access (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Leased Commercial Access (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 In this document, the Commission modifies the leased access rate formula; adopts customer service obligations that require minimal standards and equal treatment of leased access programmers with other programmers; eliminates the requirement for an independent accountant to review leased access rates; requires annual reporting of leased access statistics; adopts expedited time frames for resolution of complaints and modifies the discovery process. This book contains: - The complete text of the Leased Commercial Access (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and Development of Competition and Diversity (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and Development of Competition and Diversity (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 In this document, the Commission retains for five years the prohibition on exclusive contracts for satellite cable programming and satellite broadcast programming between vertically integrated programming vendors and cable operators and modifies the procedures for resolving program access disputes. This book contains: - The complete text of the Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and Development of Competition and Diversity (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

When conflicts arise between a programmer (a broadcaster or a cable network owner) and a multi-channel video programming distributor (MVPD, usually a cable or satellite operator) about the carriage of particular video programming, the price for that programming, or the tier on which the programming is to be offered to the end user, many consumers can be affected. Recently there have been several incidents in which a negotiating impasse between a programmer and a distributor has resulted in the programmer refusing to allow the MVPD to carry, or the MVPD choosing not to carry, a program network. While contractual terms, conditions, and rates are determined by private negotiations, they are strongly affected by a number of federal statutory provisions and regulatory requirements, including the statutory retransmission consent and must-carry rules, the FCC program exclusivity rules, local-into-local and distant signal provisions in satellite laws, copyright law provisions relating to cable and satellite, statutory commercial leased access requirements and program carriage and non-discriminatory access provisions, and the FCC's media ownership rules. The recent increase in negotiating impasses appears to be the result of structural market changes that have given programmers with "must-have" programming much greater leverage, particularly when they are negotiating with small distributors. Competitive entry in distribution -- almost all cable companies now face competition from two satellite companies, and are beginning to face competition from telephone companies -- has emboldened programmers with popular programming to demand cash payment from distributors for the right to carry that programming. In particular, local broadcasters increasingly are using the statutory retransmission consent requirement to demand cash payment from small cable companies who could lose subscribers to the satellite providers and new telephone entrants if they reach an impasse with the broadcaster and can no longer carry the local broadcast signals. In the past, the cable companies were the only MVPD in a market and could use that countervailing power to refuse to pay cash for carriage. Thus, ironically, competition in the distribution market may be resulting in higher programming costs that MVPDs may have to pass on to their subscribers. The small cable companies have argued that some of the existing statutory and regulatory requirements were implemented at a time when cable was a monopoly and were intended to protect broadcasters. Now that the market dynamics have changed, they argue, some of these rules should be changed to allow for more even-handed negotiations. At the same time, however, as a result of consolidation and clustering in the cable industry there are a few very large cable companies, which primarily serve major markets, as well as the two national satellite operators, that appear to have sufficient market strength to be able to withstand many of the demands of the programmers with must-have programming and to place small independent programmers at a negotiating disadvantage.

Retransmission Consent Negotiations (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Retransmission Consent Negotiations (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") adopts a rule providing that it is a violation of the duty to negotiate retransmission consent in good faith for a television broadcast station that is ranked among the top four stations as measured by audience share to negotiate retransmission consent jointly with another such station, if the stations are not commonly owned and serve the same geographic market. The rule is intended to promote competition among Top Four broadcast stations for carriage of their signals by multichannel video programming distributors and facilitate the fair and effective completion of retransmission consent negotiations. This book contains: - The complete text of the Retransmission Consent Negotiations (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Channel Sharing (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Channel Sharing (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 In this Report and Order, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopted rules to allow full power and Class A stations with auction-related channel sharing agreements (CSAs) to become sharees outside of the incentive auction context so that they can continue to operate if their auction-related CSAs expire or otherwise terminate. The Commission also adopted rules to allow all low power television and TV translator stations (secondary stations) to share a channel with another secondary station or with a full power or Class A station. This action will assist secondary stations that are displaced by the incentive auction and the repacking process to continue to operate in the post-auction television bands. The rules adopted in this R&O will enhance the benefits of channel sharing for broadcasters without imposing significant burdens on multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). This book contains: - The complete text of the Channel Sharing (US Federal Communications Commission Regulation) (FCC) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section