The American Cable Association opposed Viacom’s cutting off...
The American Cable Association opposed Viacom’s cutting off access to its online content for Cable One subscribers after failed carriage negotiations. “Viacom’s actions are a flagrant attack on Internet openness and a textbook replay of the vengeful action CBS took…
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against Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks broadband customers during their well-documented retransmission consent dispute,” ACA said in a news release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/SxrdLr). ACA referred to the CBS and TWC dispute last year (CD Aug 6 p2). Access to Viacom’s online content also was blocked for customers of Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, ACA said. Viacom’s action is affecting access “to a subset of broadband customers, also known as ‘cord cutters,’ who are not video customers of these companies,” ACA said. Viacom is “violating Internet openness in a way that should be seen as a call to action to policymakers on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission,” ACA said. “Cable One and Liberty Cablevision have chosen to no longer carry Viacom programming and, as a result, it is no longer available to their customers in any form,” Viacom said in a statement. Cable One and Liberty Cablevision had no comment.