The Big Four affiliates want federal regulators to drop plans of keeping a record of signal blackouts that result from contract disputes between TV stations and cable and satellite TV providers.
Lawyers for some 600 stations affiliated with the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox networks delivered that message to the Federal Communications Commission this week along with a fresh request that online linear video providers like YouTube TV should be classified as the legal equivalent of cable and satellite TV operators and brought within the carriage distribution system known as retransmission consent.
“Put plainly, no provision of the Communications Act empowers the [FCC] to require notification of retransmission consent negotiation impasses between broadcast television stations and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs),” the Big Four affiliates said in a March 26 FCC filing.
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