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Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323,\u00a0benk@nclnet.org<\/a><\/p>\n Washington, DC\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The National Consumers League today applauded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its vote to attribute the Commission\u2019s media ownership rules to Joint Sales Agreements between television stations. NCL also applauded the Commission\u2019s unanimous vote to prohibit certain joint retransmission consent negotiations by broadcasters.<\/p>\n The following statement is attributable to John Breyault, NCL Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud:<\/p>\n “The promotion of diversity, competition and localism in the media is central to the FCC\u2019s mission. It is therefore imperative that agreements allowing broadcasters to avoid the Commission\u2019s media ownership limits be prohibited, absent a compelling public interest reason that they be\u00a0waived. The Commission\u2019s action today rightfully supports consumers\u2019 access to a wide variety of voices on the nation\u2019s public airwaves.”<\/p>\n “As NCL has stated in the past, consumers should not be pawns in the seemingly never-ending retransmission fights between billion-dollar cable companies and media conglomerates. The FCC\u2019s action to prohibit certain joint retransmission consent negotiations by broadcasters will help prod all parties at the table to focus on the best interests of their ultimate customers \u2013 bill-paying consumers.”<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization. Its mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit\u00a0www.nclnet.org<\/a>. March 31, 2014 Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323,\u00a0benk@nclnet.org Washington, DC\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The National Consumers League today applauded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its vote to attribute the Commission\u2019s media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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