FCC Taking Comments on Mediacom-Pushed Blackout Restriction Rule
The FCC Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau is taking comments on Mediacom's push to amend retransmission rules in a way that would limit broadcast blackouts. The bureau is taking comments for 30 days, it said in a notice posted Wednesday…
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opening docket RM-11752. Mediacom filed a petition with the FCC earlier this month seeking rules preventing local broadcasters from imposing blackouts unless a station's signal is available for free over-the-air or via Internet streaming to 90 percent of the homes in the relevant market (see 1507070061).