Allen, Goodfriend Meet With FCC Commissioners on Broadcast Ownership Diversity
The national broadcast ownership cap doesn’t need to be lifted, said Weather Channel's Byron Allen in meetings with all five FCC commissioners last week, according to ex parte filing in docket 14-50. Allen was accompanied by attorney David Goodfriend, founder…
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of The Sports Fan Coalition, which operates streaming service Locast. The current 39 percent cap is high enough “especially considering” the “so-called UHF discount,” the filing said. The meetings included discussion of “unique challenges” for minority owners of broadcasting, cable and satellite properties, “particularly the difficulty of obtaining access to capital.” Restrictive streaming contract provisions that limit the ability of affiliates to stream prime-time content were also discussed, the fling said. "Encouraging more favorable reverse network compensation structures for minority owners” was cited as a possible means of increasing minority broadcast ownership, the filing said.