Cable has always LIED to me! I''m a leased access programmer in a small town and if were not for my complaining to the FCC about my experiences with COX cable not being honest to me about their own rules, they would have never carried my programming from our television station. They demanded I be charged thousands of $$$$ a month for equipment that was not even necessary, even better, they were carrying other TV stations in my area for FREE except I was willing to pay for the airtime. UNBELIEVABLE!!! It took almost two years to finally get through to them STALLING EVERY SECOND THEY HAD. Now that the new rates are NOT going to go into effect this week it just shows me that our government is and is becoming more and more on the side of BIG BUSINESS and not the PEOPLE like our forefathers intended!!! Today is a sad, sad day for independent voices in America.

Cable's claim of irreparable harm is based on misrepresentation. Their claim they will be forced off lower tiers and placed on digital is a falsehood since an FCC order made after the new rules and rates were adopted. This order permits cable to place leased access on digital tiers. Additionally cable has been shifting PEG channels to digital tiers freeing up more analog or lower tier channels to be used by non-leased cable. Cable has become so greedy that lying to a court is apparently easy to do.
The irreparable harm will be to leased access users that for years have been mistreated by cable and far too often driven off by wrongful acts by cable sites.

score one for cabl