NAB-NCTA Election Notification Proposal Gets Some ACA Support, DBS Pushback
NAB and NCTA's proposal for new broadcast carriage election notice procedures (see 1812100051) has partial support from the American Cable Association. But DirecTV and Dish Network oppose extending those procedures to direct broadcast satellite operators. In a docket 17-317 posting…
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Tuesday, ACA said the NAB/NCTA proposal should have a separate timeline for small cable operators using the cable operations and licensing system for making contact information available to broadcasters. ACA said if certified mail remains the route for notifying DBS providers, the FCC should let cable operators that want to keep getting notices that way opt for it as well. There's no reason to change carriage election procedures covering DBS operators, since burdens are negligible for broadcasters to mail DirecTV and Dish once every three years compared with the challenge of mailing legions of cable systems, the satellite operators said. The DBS companies said substituting email and phone calls for certified mail isn't feasible as they would have to handle calls and emails from more than 1,300 stations. They said spam filters and email address typos could be problematic.