Cable giants lose first round in lawsuit challenging '92 cable act. (Cable Television Consumer Protection Act of 1992)

Nation's Cities Weekly, January, 1993 by Ferrera, Anna Pulido

Cable conglomterates have lost the first round of legal wrangling over the constitutionality of the NLC-supported Cable Television Consumer Protection Act of 1992. On December 22 and 23, the federal district. court for the District of Columbia denied requests for a preliminary injunction in a suit filed by Time Warner Entertainment Company, and Discovery Communications, Inc. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1992 Act's must-carry and-retransmission consent provisions. These sections allow broadcasters to choose between mandatory carriage of their over-the-air signals, or require that cable companies compensate them in some way for retransmission rights. The cable Companies assert that the new Cable-Act unfairly interferes with their right to do...

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