Many rural Americans cannot receive broadcast signals over the air and do not wish to subscribe to costly satellite service. This makes receiving video service from a small rural video provider a great option. Unfortunately, small rural video providers have faced barriers to access to desirable content at reasonable prices and under reasonable terms.
Over the past decade, dozens of WTA members have been forced to exit the video marketplace due to unrestrained programming costs that make offering video a losing proposition for them. WTA advocates for new rules that will make offering video in rural America a more financially tenable position. It also supports reforms that will bring more fairness and transparency to retransmission consent negotiations such as prohibiting the tying and tiering of content and the creation of à la carte options.
- Reply Comments Opposing Relaxation of Top Four Prohibition – filed May 29, 2019
- Reply Comments in FCC Video Accessibility Proceeding – filed November 13, 2017
- Comments to Video Competition Report Public Notice – filed October 10, 2017
- FCC’s Annual Video Competition Report
- WTA Comments for 19th Report – filed October 10, 2017
- FCC’s Retransmission Consent Proceedings
- NPRM on Good Faith in Retransmission Consent Negotiations – released September 2, 2015
- WTA Comments – filed December 1, 2015
- WTA Reply Comments – filed January 14, 206
- NPRM – released March 28, 2011
- Joint Comments of WTA, OPASTCO, NTCA, ITTA and RICA – filed May 27, 2011
- FCC’s NPRM on “Unlocking” the Set-Top Box
- NPRM – released February 18, 2016
- WTA Comments – filed April 22, 2016
- FCC’s FNPRM on Broadcast Network Non-Duplication Rules
- FNPRM – released March 3, 2014
- WTA’s Comments – filed June 26, 2014