DirecTV, Hawaii Broadcaster Level Charges in Good Faith Talks Dustup
DirecTV's trying to blame licensee HITV for not negotiating in good faith makes "a mockery of the entire concept of good faith negotiations," HITV said in a docket 17-292 filing posted Friday. It lodged a good faith negotiations complaint against…
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DirecTV in October (see 1710230046). HITV said it never asked DirecTV for alternative terms to its initial offer, only to indicate whether it would consider alternative terms -- something it refused to do. And it said DirecTV's claims the proceeding is moot because of an alternative proposal made to HITV ignores that the proposal wasn't meaningfully different from the first. HITV's filing was in response to a DirecTV answer to the initial complaint. In that answer, DirecTV said it never said it would refuse to consider alternative terms or counterproposals and HITV -- dissatisfied with DirecTV's initial offer -- demanded a better second offer, making DirecTV negotiate against itself.