Right on schedule, the politicians are starting to weigh in on the feud between Walt Disney Co.’s ABC and Cablevision Systems.
At issue are fees ABC wants Cablevision to pay to carry WABC-TV, its New York City station. Cablevision has about 3.1 million subscribers in that region. Cablevision says Disney wants $40 million a year to carry the station, which translates to $1.00 per subscriber. Disney has denied that figure but has not elaborated what it is seeking. Disney is threatening to pull its signal from Cablevision this Sunday, which is when the Oscars are airing on the network.
Disney and Cablevision aren’t the only ones squabbling over this issue. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski saying that the regulatory agency should revisit the so-called retransmission consent rules that allow broadcasters to seek fees from cable operators in return for carrying their signals. Kerry told Genachowski that he does not think broadcasters should be allowed to pull their signal from a cable operator “unless the cable company is negotiating in bad faith.” The FCC, he added, would be the ones to determine whether that is the case. Kerry is chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
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