FCC Chief Says She’ll Act If CBS And Time Warner Cable Don’t Resolve Dispute deadline/2013/08/fcc-chief-says-shell-act-if-cbs-and-time-warner-cable-dont-resolve-dispute/ By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor UPDATE, 1:15 PM: Reactions are starting to come it to FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn’s warning that she might step in if the stalemate between CBS and Time Warner Cable continues. The cable company says it agrees that “consumers are being adversely affected,” and hopes that CBS “soon will come to a reasonable agreement with us.” A coalition of cable programmers and distributors, the American Television Alliance, says the FCC “has sat on the sidelines for too long” to fix a system that is “clearly broken.” But Medley Global Advisors’ Jeffrey Silva says Clyburn probably won’t do more than jawbone. “Lawmakers tend to think twice before getting into a scrap with broadcasters, finding their presence in Washington and their home states/districts a potential existential threat.”
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:20:15 +0000
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