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American Cable Association Says Sunlight Needed To Expose Broadcasters’ Private Price-Fixing Schemes

American Cable Association President & CEO Matthew M. Polka, responding to a Dec. 21, 2011 letter filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the "Coalition of Smaller Market Television Stations," issued the following statement:

American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka issued the following statement in response to the introduction of major communications reform legislation by U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka issued the following statement on news the NFL will receive an estimated 60% increase in annual television fees under new 9-year deals worth $27 billion combined with CBS, NBC, and FOX.

ACA is pleased President Obama will nominate Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai to serve at the FCC. Both are talented individuals with a deep understanding of the digital economy and the vital role played by small and mid-sized cable operators.

"The notion that retransmission consent negotiations take place in a free market is a figment of NAB's fertile imagination," American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka says.

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The American Cable Association supports public disclosure of any agreement, including Shared Services Agreements, that allow separately owned TV stations in the same local market to coordinate their retransmission consent talks with pay-TV providers

ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka supports Shenandoah Cable Television Company (Shentel) in connection with a retransmission consent complaint filed last Thursday with the Federal Communications Commission by TV station WJLA in Washington, D.C.

American Cable Association Says Sunlight Needed To Expose Broadcasters’ Private Price-Fixing Schemes

American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission's vote yesterday to launch a review of its broadcast ownership rules:

American Cable Association President & CEO Matthew M. Polka, responding to a Dec. 21, 2011 letter filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the "Coalition of Smaller Market Television Stations," issued the following statement:

American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka issued the following statement in response to the introduction of major communications reform legislation by U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka issued the following statement on news the NFL will receive an estimated 60% increase in annual television fees under new 9-year deals worth $27 billion combined with CBS, NBC, and FOX.

ACA is pleased President Obama will nominate Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai to serve at the FCC. Both are talented individuals with a deep understanding of the digital economy and the vital role played by small and mid-sized cable operators.

Six weeks are a long time for consumers to be disconnected from what broadcasters, like LIN TV, call ‘free TV.’ LIN TV just proved that retransmission consent harms consumers. The retransmission consent rules need to be updated very soon

"The notion that retransmission consent negotiations take place in a free market is a figment of NAB's fertile imagination," American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka says.

ACA responds to LIN TV's blackout against Mediacom cable subscribers. Stations involved include WALA-WFNA, Mobile-Pensacola; WOOD-WOTV, Grand Rapids; WANE, Ft. Wayne, WLUK, Green Bay; and WTHI Terre Haute and WLFI, Lafayette, Ind.

Customers in Oregon City, Redland, Violia, Springwater and rural parts of Clackamas County can no longer view KATU on local cable system.