FCC Rethinks Over-the-Top Decision

摘要

The fcc has long known it can't please all the people all the time. And last week, the nation's largest cable operator found itself on the short end of that axiom.rnThe FCC Media Bureau stayed its own decision from a little over three months ago and ruled that, at least for now and perhaps for good, over-the-top video distributors (OVDs) who seek access to Comcast/NBCU-owned programming do not have to make the terms of their agreements with other programmers available to Comcast's outside counsel or experts. Comcast will now have to either trust OVDs when they say terms are or are not comparable, or submit impasses to an outside arbitrator.