Battle looms over leased-access. (Federal Communications Commission plans to lower cable leased-access costs)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1997 by McConnell, Chris

Media Access Project says FCC is 'wrong a second time' on rate formula Proponents of lower cable leased-access costs are anticipating a court fight, after the FCC last week issued its plan to cut leased-access rates. "We expect to be in court," Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman said of the FCC's new rate formula.

"They've done it wrong a second time." The FCC issued the formula hoping to make the leased-access channels more accessible to would-be programers. The rules allow operators to charge those who lease the channels an "implicit fee," based on the difference between the average price per channel that a subscriber pays the cable operator and the amount per subscriber the cable operator pays a traditional cable programer....

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