NAB to Court: FCC Decision On Contracts Is Unsustainable

The National Association of Broadcasters has told the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that its retransmission consent deals with pay TV are among their "most closely guarded secrets" that should not be shared with third parties. The comments come in support of a challenge by CBS and other programmers to the Federal Communications Commission’s decision in the Comcast/Time Warner Cable and AT&T/DirecTV merger reviews to make contracts and work product from retrans and other programming deals available to hundreds of third parties.