Broadcast television station ownership group Gray Media has urged the FCC to prohibit the current way carriage rights of a “Big Four” affiliate are conducted with virtual MVPDs such as YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV.
Why? Gray claims the nation’s TV networks are engaged in bargaining tactics that result in them retaining sole authority over the affiliates’ relationship with vMVPDs – either de facto
or de jure. As such, “they are a method of undue interference with a local broadcaster’s right to control distribution of its signal.”
