Sinclair Pushes for Keeping Network Nonduplication Rule
The network nonduplication status quo is the best enforcement means for exclusive arrangements, "avoiding the cost, time, inconvenience and uncertainty of the courts," Sinclair said in an FCC ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 10-71. It said if the…
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FCC were to eliminate the nondupe rule (see 1508120051), "a fully integrated private contract regime" could fill its role, but that would take years to set up and any elimination of the no-dupe rule "should allow for that evolution period," Sinclair General Counsel Barry Faber and Senior Vice President-Strategy and Policy Rebecca Hanson told Commissioner Mike O'Rielly and, separately, Maria Kirby, media adviser to Chairman Tom Wheeler.