OVD-as-MVPD Docket Not Dormant, Local Broadcasters Say
The FCC Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau shouldn't terminate docket 14-261 on the inclusion of some types of online video distribution (OVD) as MVPDs (see 2006020058), among the hundreds of dockets considered, said the ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC affiliates…
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associations Friday. The proceeding "is far from dormant" and the issues it raises remain germane, they said. Local broadcasters' ability to negotiate with OVD services for retransmission would be directly affected by whether to treat them as MVPDs subject to retransmission consent rules, they said. Since 2017, the affiliates groups contributed the majority of filings to the docket.