Eric Fruits on the FCC Retransmission Rule
ICLE Senior Scholar Eric Fruits was quoted by Communications Daily in a story about the Federal Communications Commission’s retransmission-consent blackout rules. You can read the full piece here.
International Center for Law & Economics Senior Scholar Eric Fruits emailed that with the agenda for the Jan. 15 meeting — Rosenworcel’s last — not including retrans consent blackout rebates, the issue has been back-burnered. No items are scheduled for a vote during that meeting (see 2412230045). Fruits — a critic of the blackout rebates proposal (see 2403060071) — said the reporting requirements “seem to be fairly ‘light touch.'” A rebate would be unworkable due to such challenges as identifying the affected subscribers, he said. “My guess is that the FCC says that they have now ‘done something’ about retransmission consent agreement blackouts, call it a day, and move on.”