NAB, ACM Back Cable Channel Lineups in Public Files
NAB and the Alliance for Community Media back eliminating a requirement that cable operators keep at their local offices a paper listing of the channel lineup, saying online access makes more sense. NATOA had argued the same (see 1805300092). In…
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a docket 18-92 filing Thursday, NAB said only cable operators' online public files are easily accessible and required to be accurate, while their company websites aren't required to have channel lineups or that they be up to date. Also backing keeping lineups in online public files, ACM said there might be an economic disincentive to providing complete information about public, educational and government channels since they don't generate revenue for the MVPD, and "a reasonably recent history" of full channel lineups should be kept.