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You are hereFCC retransmission update can protect consumers
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2010-06-02 22:18
The FCC has a ready-made opportunity to protect consumers by approving the simple rule updates recommended in the pending Retransmission Petition.
The petition is laser-focused on updates to the FCC's rules to protect consumers from being used as pawns or hostages in commercial disputes not of their making or interest.
It is highly instructive that opponents of the retransmission petition focus most all their argumentation on protecting the status quo, that unnecessarily puts consumers directly in harms way, and that does not directly address why consumers should not be protected as recommended in the petition.
What is even more instructive is that the recommendation of the opponents of the petition, to create 30 day notice of the potential loss of programming, does nothing to protect consumers from that loss of programming and everything to further ensure that these same consumers actually will be put in harms way with impunity.
The FCC has a simple binary choice before it, maintain a very consumer un-friendly and out-of-date status quo, or update the FCC's Section 325 rules for the market circumstances that presently exist -- by approving the two recommended consumer protections in the petition.
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