Google's Page Questions Cable Must-Carry Law

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(5/22) Google co-founder and president Larry Page said the ability of television stations to demand carriage on cable systems probably deters policymakers from ever considering plans to take back TV spectrum for use by mobile broadband access providers. "I don't know how you fix that," Page said. "I think that's a difficult political problem." Page's point was that TV stations don't want to give up the economic value tied to must carry, no matter how small their over-the-air audience.
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Google's Page Questions Cable Must-Carry Law