Media General, NAB Want Carriage Rights for Channel Sharing Stations Post-Auction
The FCC should “promptly” give broadcasters “regulatory certainty” about how the agency will treat channel sharing deals, the NAB said in replies filed in docket 12-268 Friday. Parties in second-generation channel sharing arrangements (CSA) should maintain their carriage rights with…
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multichannel video programming distributors, NAB said. In its own replies, Media General agreed with NAB but said the FCC should incentivize post-auction CSAs by compensating broadcasters that enter into them for their relinquished spectrum. Exempting such stations from the multiple ownership rules could be one such incentive, Media General said.