FuboTV: Treating Streaming Services as MVPDs Would Hurt Local Stations
Changes to the FCC’s current definition of an MVPD to include streaming services “would create an inefficient market and decrease the number of local stations” carried by such services, said streaming service FuboTV in a call with FCC Media Bureau…
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staff last week, according to an ex parte filing posted in docket 14-261 Monday. In the years since the FCC last sought comment in that docket ”competition and consumer access to local stations has increased through the carriage of such local stations by vMVPDs,” FuboTV said. Broadcasters and lawmakers pushed the agency to refresh the record on classifying streaming services as MVPDs (see 2307180058).