From Broadcasting and Cable –
The FCC voted unanimously Thursday (March 23) to allow TV stations more flexibility to share channels after the broadcast incentive auction but, in a victory for cable operators, with a change to the original draft to insure no new carriage obligations are put on MVPDs and no opportunity is given for LPTVs without must-carry rights to gain them.
The FCC made clear in the item that a low-power TV station that strikes a sharing agreement with a station with must-carry rights that it will only share in those must-carry rights if it had must carry in its previous, non-sharing life.
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