A group representing small cable operators and a broadcaster traded...
A group representing small cable operators and a broadcaster traded rhetoric. The American Cable Association said Nexstar was wrong to ask (CD Aug 1 p14) the FCC to not consider ACA’s comments about retransmission consent regarding a lawsuit the company…
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filed against another broadcaster in the Fort Wayne, Ind., market. “Whether it likes it or not, or even admits it, Nexstar has filed an antitrust suit against a competing broadcaster that illustrates the point that coordinated action by TV stations to monopolize the local advertising market can produce largely identical anti-consumer harms as coordinated action in connection with retransmission consent,” ACA President Matt Polka said in a news release Wednesday. The broadcaster’s response “elucidates the position that ACA presented” that the suit “rests on the same basic economic argument as ACA’s filings in this docket urging the Commission to adopt a per se prohibition on coordinated” retrans talks by separately-owned stations in the same market, the group said. Its Wednesday filing is in docket 10-71 (http://xrl.us/bk4fsr).