Dish Spent Less on Lobbying in Q4
Dish Network’s Q4 lobbying expenses dropped in 2015 compared with what it spent in Q4 of 2014, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed this week. The Q4 reports are due Wednesday, and several organizations had begun filing by our deadline…
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Tuesday. Dish spent $310,000 the most recent quarter, vs. $350,000 a year earlier. Dish lobbying priorities included satellite broadband, wireless competition and spectrum management, including spectrum auctions, it said, plus retransmission consent reform, video market competition and merger and acquisition activity in the pay-TV industry for the three company lobbyists named. Dish spent $380,000 in 2015's Q3, $440,000 in Q2 and $400,000 in Q1, making the latest quarter spending the lowest in more than a year of reports. The Competitive Carriers Association, meanwhile, spent more on lobbying -- $150,000 this Q4 vs. $135,000 reported a year ago. CCA named more than a dozen issues and many pieces of legislation in its recent lobbying report. Focuses included the FCC broadcast TV incentive auction and other issues such as special access, FirstNet and federal lands siting. U.S. Cellular reported spending $110,000 in its lobbying report. ITTA spent more on lobbying: $43,748 up from $20,000. So did TDS Telecom, which spent $40,214.64 compared with $29,936 in Q4 the year before.