ACA Keeps Pressure on FCC Regarding News Corp. Conditions

The American Cable Association, the lobbying organization for small and mid-sized cable operators, again asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny News Corp.'s effort to get out from under conditions the FCC put on the company when it bought DirecTV. This time, the ACA argued that the company "manipulated Commission processes to suppress scrutiny of a key issue in the Liberty [Media]/DirecTV transaction." The FCC Feb. 25 approved the sale of DirecTV to Liberty. News Corp. petitioned the FCC March 11 to lift the conditions. The company said its sale of DirecTV to Liberty justified lifting the conditions that required it to submit to commercial arbitration in cable-operator program-access complaints about negotiations for regional sports networks or retransmission-consent talks.
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