ACA: DOJ Filing Should Signal Attribution Determination For Joint Retransmission

The American Cable Association told the Federal Communications Commission that the commission should declare coordinated retransmission consent agreements as per se attributable under ownership rules.

That means a station could not coordinate retransmission negotiations for another station unless it could also own that station under FCC local or national ownership rules. ACA pointed to the Justice Department's filing at the FCC, in which it said that coordinated sales or retransmission negotiations would need to serve "some other efficiency enhancing combination of operations" at the two stations not to be deemed per se illegal.