Small Cable Operators to Congress: Help!
Multichannel News, October 22, 2009
By John Eggerton
At a House Communications Subcommittee hearing on video competition, small cable operators testified that the cost of programming has exploded, but Congress wouldn't know because of nondisclosure terms in their contracts. They urged Congress to require transparency in cost per channel and rethink retransmission rules.
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