Fox: It"s NCTC"s Fault.(National Cable Television Cooperative)(Fox Cable Networks Group)

Multichannel News, August, 2006 by Moss, Linda

By Linda Moss Fox Cable Networks has told the Federal Communications Commission that it hasn't 'stonewalled' the National Cable Television Cooperative in negotiations for carriage of 13 regional sports networks. Fox's letter to FCC chairman Kevin Martin denies allegations made by the co-op in its July 25 missive to the regulator.

The NCTC claimed it had reached an impasse as it seeks to negotiate a master carriage agreement for Fox sports channels, because the programmer won't waive confidentiality provisions in existing deals with co-op members. Therefore, the co-op can't see what some of its members are already paying for the regionals, the NCTC said in its letter. But according to Lindsay Gardner, Fox Cable's president of affiliate sales and...

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