Maine's a la Carte Cable Law Faces Legal, Technical Hurdles, CCG Says
Maine's a la carte cable TV programming law likely won't survive the legal challenge by Comcast and programmers (see 1909100041), but if it does, expect it to be replicated in other states, CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson blogged Tuesday. He…
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said programmers likely would pull content from any cable distributor that tried to implement a la carte offerings because that would surely violate contracts: And no one has developed the software to allow custom blocking down to the individual channel level. Others expect an uphill legal battle (see 1909170064).