The gloves are definitely off, big-time, in the battle between broadcasters and cable over the future of TV. The rhetoric in the retrans wars has been heating up on both sides led by their respective stalking horses, the American Television Alliance and TV Freedom, which trade barbs and slams-cable service is bad and prices are too high, broadcasters are extorting retrans windfalls that pummel subs and account for those prices, etc. And broadcasters have not been feeling the love lately from the FCC as chairman Tom Wheeler took aim at exclusivity rules, proposed prioritizing unlicensed spectrum over licensed broadcast spectrum and tightened JSA rules.
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