Broadcasters, Networks Backing NAB-NCTA Election Notification Proposal
Broadcasters and networks are supporting NAB/NCTA's election cycle notification proposal (see 1812100051). Meredith said in an FCC docket 17-317 posting Monday that sending election notices only in a change of election would reduce hundreds of letters to "handfuls" and minimize…
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"'gotcha' gamesmanship" since the status quo would remain absent affirmative broadcaster choice. Meredith said certified mail is expensive and slow, and the proposal should apply to all MVPDs, including direct broadcast satellite, since two rules regimes would be confusing. The ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC TV affiliates associations and their networks said the current system often "devolved into gamesmanship" with arguments about technicalities of who hadn't fulfilled obligations, and the compromise could make "such useless sparring a thing of the past." Nexstar and Ion Media backed it (see here and here).