The Sports Fans Coalition continued urging the FCC to prohibit the takedown of sporting eventsnduring retransmission consent disputes, like the current disagreement between Time Warner Cable andnCBS. Given the public good nature of sports programming, "the leagues' licensees should not be permittednto abuse the very market power created on the backs of the American taxpayer and voter," SFC ChairmannDavid Goodfriend said in an ex parte filing in docket 10-71 (http://bit.ly/14uk5NH). "Without sportsnfans, there would be no sports media economy." The least sports fans should expect from their governmentn"is a basic guarantee to get what they already have paid for," he said.
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