Public Broadcasters Urge Change in Broadcast Satellite Election Notification Rules
Meeting with FCC Media Bureau Chief Michelle Carey, counsel for America's Public TV Stations, PBS and CPB urged elimination of the requirement that qualified noncommercial educational TV stations refile satellite carriage requests every three years since they can only request…
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mandatory carriage anyway, said a docket 17-317 ex parte posting Friday. They said satellite carriage rules for noncommercial stations should follow the cable carriage rules for noncommercial stations. They said noncommercial stations should have to notify MVPDs only if they seek to retract their current mandatory carriage requests or make a new or revised request due to a change in circumstances.