If it were up to broadcast television station affiliate group members, the National Association of Broadcasters and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), retransmission consent regulatory policy would be extended to virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributors, or vMVPDs.
The two leading Republicans on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce aren’t so keen on the idea, and they’ve written to the Chairwoman of the FCC to express concerns about any plan to expand retrans to vMVPDs.
