O'Rielly Urges Revisions in Program Carriage Complaint Process
The FCC should institute a "program carriage statute of limitations" that starts ticking when the program carriage offense allegedly occurs, bringing such rules in line with the time limits the agency puts on related matters like good faith requirements in…
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the retransmission consent context and program access complaints, Commissioner Mike O'Rielly blogged Tuesday. He also urged an automatic stay of an administrative law judge's program carriage complaint initial decision to give the cable operator that loses a chance to appeal the decision to the full commission. O'Rielly recommended axing the requirement cable operators keep records of their attributable interests in video programming services and carriage of those vertically integrated video programming services on their cable systems.