Cable Industry Hopeful About Modern TV Act, ACA's Boyers Says
The cable industry hopes for at least incremental improvements in the retransmission consent regime via the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization that Congress likely will act on later this year, said America's Communications Association Chairman Patricia Jo Boyers…
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in the latest ACA Connects podcast, released Thursday. She said bigger hopes are tied to the Modern TV Act (HR-3994) and the possibility of its repeal of the retrans regime. She said what's spent on retrans cuts into what ISPs can spend on extending or upgrading their networks. "It's real for me," said Boyers, the president of Boycom Vision.