OpticalTel Responds to Dish Appeal in Broadcaster Retrans Row
Dish Network's application for review of an FCC Media Bureau order (see 1704200045) is procedurally defective since it's not a party in the proceeding, and is trying for "bootstrap party status" since the bureau sent it a letter, OpticalTel said…
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in an opposition Friday in docket 14-258. Dish failed to show it was aggrieved by the bureau's March reconsideration order, OpticalTel said. It dismissed Dish's argument it's aggrieved by the order since it could be read as saying direct broadcast satellite operators like Dish always hold themselves as MVPDs, with OpticalTel saying the order doesn't do that. OpticalTel said Dish's new factual and legal arguments are meritless. The DBS provider didn't comment Friday. The order followed an OpticalTel petition for reconsideration of a 2016 order that said OpticalTel had retransmitted a Florida broadcaster's signal without retransmission consent.