Cox, StogMedia in Leased Carriage Access Insurance Fight
Calling StogMedia's leased carriage access complaint "incoherent ramblings," Cox Communications asked the FCC Media Bureau to disregard StogMedia's response to opposition and motion to dismiss, which Cox is calling unauthorized. StogMedia filed a petition for relief in November asking the…
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bureau to compel Cox to provide leased carriage access on its system, claiming Cox was violating rules on liability insurance for leased access programming by requiring unreasonable levels of coverage and making "excessive and forceful" demands about content. Pointing to StogMedia's docket 17-314 reply last month, Cox in a filing Thursday said FCC rules allow only for filing a petition for relief and a response and don't provide for pleadings beyond that, and that StogMedia's response doesn't clarify past arguments but tries to obfuscate that StogMedia hasn't provided liability insurance covering any programming it wants Cox to carry on its system and that coverage is within cable operators' rights to require. StogMedia didn't comment Thursday.