Tate Pushes Cable on À La Carte

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Speaking at a National Association of Broadcasters State Leadership Conference in Washington, new FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate said she's been talking to cable operators about a la carte pricing. She supports family tiers, but don't think they go far enough for families that complain about cable prices when they have to block half the channels. On another issue, Commissioner Tate said she had been meeting with broadcasters about what positive steps they could take to combat childhood obesity. She repeatedly struck the theme of the industry's power to do good, saying she thought broadcaster efforts were responsible for helping raise immunization rates in her home state of Tennessee, and had come up with an impressive campaign to combat drug abuse.
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