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07/18/2016
ACA 'shocked and appalled' at FCC decision not to reform retrans regs
The American Cable Association lashed out at FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's announcement Thursday that his agency will not change rules governing broadcast retransmission licensing negotiations.
"ACA is shocked and appalled that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who has placed such urgency in reducing consumer confusion in the marketplace, has decided to leave unchanged the retransmission consent regime that a bipartisan Congress asked the agency to review in the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization Act of 2014 (STELAR)," said ACA President and CEO Matthew Polka, in a statement.
With a protracted retrans stalemate keeping Dish Network customers in markets like Kansas City unable from seeing Major League Baseball's All-Star game earlier this week, Polka made rhetorical use of the occasion.
