In response to the pay TV industry's support of an FCC proposal to require MVPDs to report blackouts resulting from impasses in retransmission consent negotiations, the National Association of Broadcasters has filed a brief with the FCC that disputes the notion that retransmission disputes are increasingly resulting in blackouts of broadcast signals for pay TV subscribers.
The NAB also continued to dispute the FCC’s regulatory authority to impose a blackout reporting requirement on MVPDs and argued that the requirement “also will not achieve any meaningful benefits for consumers.”
