Don't Procrastinate on Carriage Election Filings, Tannenwald Says
FCC online systems can go slow or even crash on big filing deadline days, and the must-carry/retransmission deadline "is inflexible," so upload whatever TV consent elections information is required to be filed with the agency at least a week in…
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advance of each deadline, Fletcher Heald broadcast lawyer Peter Tannenwald blogged Tuesday. He said the new, all-electronic system for notifying MVPDs of must-carry or retransmission status promises to be cheaper and simpler than the paper system, but every broadcaster and MVPD will have to upload some information this year by July 31 or Oct. 1 deadlines to preserve their legal rights.