FCC Should Expand Carriage Election Electronic Notification Rules, Say ACA and NCTA
The FCC should modernize carriage election notification rules by broadening the category of broadcasters required to submit them online, said NCTA and America’s Communication Association in comments posted Tuesday in docket 17-317. Apply electronic notification rules to low-power TV stations…
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and noncommercial educational translator stations, NCTA asked said. “Harmonize its entire carriage election regime,” it said. Rules should be extended to include MVPDs and broadcasters that don’t use online public files, ACA said. The FCC should collect carriage election information from such broadcasters and post it in a centralized location that’s searchable by MVPDs, ACA said.