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12/16/2014
NAB Acts to Protect 'Closely Guarded Secrets'
The National Association of Broadcasters has told a federal court that its retransmission consent deals with MVPDs are among their "most closely guarded secrets" that should not be shared with third parties. That came in NAB comments filed Monday (Dec. 15) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in support of a challenge by CBS and other programmers to the FCC's decision in the Comcast/Time Warner Cable and AT&T/DirecTV merger reviews to make contracts and work product from retrans and other programming deals available to hundreds of third parties.
