ATVA Continues Lobbying Push on Totality of Circumstances Test
American TV Alliance officials met with FCC Media Bureau staff to talk specifics about some proposals (see 1512010052) for changes to the totality of circumstances test for good faith retransmission consent negotiations, ATVA said in an ex parte filing Monday…
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in docket 15-216. ATVA said the Media Bureau meeting covered such ground as local vs. national ratings in defining marquee events as part of its push to restrict blackouts of such programming and the details of its proposal to allow temporary importation of distant signals. ATVA said it also discussed labor law doctrine requiring negotiations until impasse and how that could play into broadcaster/multichannel video programming distributor talks. ATVA has been aggressively lobbying on proposed changes to the totality test (see 1602190044).