Levi Maaia
Levi Maaia often writes about issues impacting small cable operators.
I'm Your Vehicle, Baby
Last month Blair Levin, the former FCC chief of staff to chairman Reed Hundt and current managing director at financial services firm Stifel Nicolaus & Company, spoke at the American Cable Association’s (ACA) Washington Summit.
The group of independent cable operators seemed eager to grill the former bureaucrat about the FCC’s current disposition, which cable op... Read More
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Why Can’t Broadcasters Compete on Own Merits?
One issue that seems to be forgotten by broadcasters arguing for retransmission compensation is the idea that they have been given, by the Federal Communications Commission and the American people, the privilege to use the public airwaves to disseminate their programming.
Unfortunately, for broa... Read More
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Operators Are Standing By …
For independent cable operators, it can many times be impossible to get a second source for the unique hardware and programming required to service our customers. In fact, the exclusivity that many of our wholesale providers enjoy contributes directly to the inflating cost of providing cable services.
In 1996, the U.S. Congress adopted a law that effectively banned the deployment of c... Read More
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