NCTA Lobbies Starks for Cable Lineup Notification Draft
Requiring cable operators to notify subscribers as soon as possible about a channel going dark from failed carriage negotiations instead of 30 days in advance is a common-sense clarification, NCTA told an aide to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, said a…
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docket 19-347 posting Friday, lobbying for the draft order on Sept. 30's FCC agenda (see 2009090048). NCTA argued if the FCC doesn't preempt local franchise authority notice requirements, it should at least make clear LFAs can't require advance notice of changes due to circumstances outside the cable operator's control.