Blackburn’s 70/70 Bill a Reality

NCTA APPLAUDS HOUSE BILL TO REPEAL 70/70 TEST
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow on Thursday praised the introduction of a bill that would repeal a law that Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin tried to use to hammer cable with new regulations, perhaps including a la carte requirements. The bill, introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), would repeal the so-called 70/70 test, which gives the FCC authority “promulgate any additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources.” But the agency first has to find that cable operators with 36 channels pass 70% of households and 70% of subscribers passed by such systems subscribe.
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