Minority Media Group Opposes A La Carte

MINORITY MEDIA GROUP OPPOSES A LA CARTE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The head of the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council (MMTC) has weighed in against the Family and Consumer Choice Act, a bill that would require cable to change the way it delivers its programming. In a letter to House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and ranking member Joe Barton (R-Tex.), David Honig, executive director of the MMTC, which promotes minority ownership of communications companies, said the group opposes "any requirement that cable systems or direct broadcast satellite companies sell channel to subscribers on an a la carte basis." Honig says a la carte offerings would "lock out" multicultural channels and "deprive the next generation of viewers of a broad spectrum of programming an opinions," and argument NCTA has also made.
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