The Battles of American Big Cable

Submitted by Marie Elliott on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 19:55.

The FCC decided that big American cable companies shouldn't be able to withhold access to competitors' channels. Today, the commission upheld regulations to prevent big cable companies from doing this.

Corie Wright, Free Press policy counsel, believes that this is a winning start but if the Comcast and NBC merge is approved, Comcast will be in charge of a majority of channels thus worsening the situation. Wright stated, "If Comcast acquires NBC-Universal, the conditions of market concentration that prompted the FCC to extend this rule will be substantially worsened and warrant even greater scrutiny."

Read the Free Press press release here - http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2010/3/12/big-cable-loses-court