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The FCC should update program access rules so they...

The FCC should update program access rules so they apply to the National Cable Television Cooperative buying group, said the American Cable Association in an ex parte filing Monday (http://bit.ly/JG8kB4). Though “nearly all” multichannel video programming distributors buy content through…

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the NCTC, “flaws” in the way the FCC implemented the program access rules prohibit them from applying to the buying group, ACA said. The commission should “promptly update the relevant rules so that program access protections account for and extend to the longstanding business model of the NCTC given that the group has found near universal acceptance among both programmers and MVPDs,” said ACA.