Insight suit highlights public-access dispute.(Insight Communications Company Inc.)

Multichannel News, February, 2006 by Haugsted, Linda

Squabbles that surface between regulators and cable operators over backing for public, educational and government channels commonly work out to be about operators attempting to diminish that support. But in a federal lawsuit pitting Insight Communications Co. against local regulators in Kentucky, the cable operator is battling a regulatory rule which demands the provider carve several communities out of the local programming interconnect.

The outcome could be costly for Insight, which has already upgraded its plant in the area. If the court sides with the operating authority, which has countersued, the company could be forced to pay to somehow disconnect several communities from the current local telecasts. When Insight acquired the local systems...

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