Telletopia Continues Push on OVD-as-MVPD Proposal
Broadening the multichannel video programming distributor definition to include some forms of online video distributors would remove a copyright problem that would allow "immediate introduction" of Internet distribution of local broadcast stations to IP-enabled devices, the Telletopia Foundation said in…
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an FCC ex parte filing Wednesday in docket 14-261. It recapped a meeting between Telletopia and a staffer from Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's office. The nonprofit has been actively lobbying for the MVPD redefinition (see 1511100014 and 1512100017) that Chairman Tom Wheeler's office had once said was a major priority, though Wheeler has since pulled back, indicating in December such a reclassification could still be part of some other video proceeding this year (see 1512170046). In its filing, Telletopia said it offered the argument that multichannel content offerings not providing local broadcast signals or taking advantage of the consent benefits of MVPD regulation shouldn't be subject to those MVPD rules, but that an OVD-MVPD seeking either retransmission consent or program access rules should be subject to those rules' obligations.