L.A. officials met with FCC staff recently to press for open acce...
L.A. officials met with FCC staff recently to press for open access requirements on all cable operators and cable must-carry status for local Hispanic broadcasting station. In March 13 ex parte filing with Commission, L.A. City Councilman Alex Padilla,…
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Govt. Representative Diego Alvarez and Asst. City Attorney Edward Perez urged agency to adopt “a uniform national open access policy” that matched or went beyond obligations imposed on AOL Time Warner by FTC and FCC. Otherwise, “some consumers in the same jurisdiction will have the benefits of open access while others will not,” they argued. They also stressed benefits of competition and First Amendment implications. In separate must- carry case, 3 city officials urged FCC to reverse itself and approve bid by Costa de Oro, L.A.-area station that presents bilingual programming. Calling agency’s failure to grant request “inequitable result” that denies more than one million Hispanic viewers access to station’s programming, officials said. Commission should consider “both the public interest and First Amendment issues” raised by station’s bid.