Free-Market Groups Fight Multicast Must Carry

FREE-MARKET GROUPS FIGHT MULTICAST MUST CARRY
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Americans For Tax Reform, the American Conservative Union, Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Property Rights Alliance, Americans for Prosperity, the National Taxpayers Union and seven other groups don't want the federal government to expand the number of local broadcast TV signals that cable operators are forced to carry. “To give broadcasters a free ride on cable operators’ private infrastructure would represent the worst sort of government mandate, and would fly in the face of the property rights protections found in the Constitution,” the groups said in an Oct. 19 letter to Martin and others in the FCC’s leadership.
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