McCain Bill Attempts To Force A La Carte

摘要

Veteran cable rate critic Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week introduced a so-called a la carte bill targeted at unbundling offerings of programmers with both cable and broadcast channels, while inserting the FCC into carriage impasses. Broadcast and cable outlets say the bill, titled the Television Consumer Freedom Act, has effectively no chance of making it into law-it gores almost everyone's ox-but it could provide a launch pad for lively discussion during a May 14 State of Video hearing in the Senate Communications Subcommittee, or offer fodder for ongoing future of video discussions in the run-up to consideration of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA).