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New Retrans Attack Targets Multicasting

TVNewsCheck | by Doug Halonen

Under one of new wrinkles in the retrans reform campaign, pay-TV companies are now urging the FCC to crack down on the ability of broadcasters to offer more than one Big 4 TV network-affiliated signals over their own channels by multicasting, and to limit the ability of broadcasters to negotiate retransmission consent rights for unaffiliated stations in separate markets.