It’s hardly a secret to broadcast television station owners that when it comes to retransmission consent and carriage negotiations that are particularly tough and result in an impasse, the MVPD — companies that offer cable TV services — is quick to blame over-the-air station owners for asking too much in the way of compensation.
With “blackouts” and carriage agreements now a FCC concern, the nation’s chief advocacy group on Capitol Hill for small and rural cable TV service providers has taken a moment to share how its members are “disproportionally” harmed by “the broken video market.”
