Dueling Studies: NAB Counters ACA

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The National Association of Broadcasters is slamming an Arlen Communications study of small-market and rural cable system retransmission negotiations that concluded stations ought to be paying for carriage and that broadcasters were preventing cable operators from launching new services. In its response to the study, the NAB asserts that the Arlen study "mischaracterizes the outcomes of retransmission consent negotiations as being something other than the result of negotiations between two parties (local cable systems and television stations) that both are facing increased competition."
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See NAB press release: http://www.nab.org/newsroom/pressrel/Releases/021606_BIAstudy_retrans.htm