broadcasting · Federal Communications Commission · Published 2014-05-19 · Effective 2014-06-18 · 79 FR 28615
Document
Document number
2014-11058
Federal Register citation
79 FR 28615
CFR reference
47 CFR 76
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
broadcasting
Publication date
2014-05-19
Effective date
2014-06-18
FCC docket
MB Docket No. 10-71
Abstract
The Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") adopts a rule providing that it is a violation of the duty to negotiate retransmission consent in good faith for a television broadcast station that is ranked among the top four stations as measured by audience share to negotiate retransmission consent jointly with another such station, if the stations are not commonly owned and serve the same geographic market. The rule is intended to promote competition among Top Four broadcast stations for carriage of their signals by multichannel video programming distributors and facilitate the fair and effective completion of retransmission consent negotiations.