Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of ''must-Carry'' Rule

[elleng]

Source: nyt./ap

The Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge from cable television operators to the 18-year-old requirement that they carry local broadcast stations on their systems.

The justices rejected an appeal Monday from Cablevision Systems Corp. The court upheld a federal ''must carry'' law, enacted in 1992 when cable TV systems faced much less competition than they do today.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/17/us/politics/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Cablevision.html

[SoapBox]

1. This is good news? Right?

[X_Digger]

2. Yup. n/t

[cstanleytech]

3. Mixed imo

I can see requiring cable companies to carry the channels but only if the channel doesnt try to make the cable company pay them money to do so, if they want money for carrying their channel though then the cable channel should have atleast the right to decline to carry the channel much like any other channel thats cable only.

[Ian David]

4. Very good news. I guess networks are bigger corporate interests than cable companies? n/t

[jayfish]

5. "enacted in 1992 when cable TV systems faced much less competition than they do today"

Ummm, where's all this new competition again?

FSH

[daleo]

6. I thought this would be about guns. n/t