Mediacom urged the FCC to invite interested parties...

Mediacom urged the FCC to invite interested parties to update the record in the retransmission consent proceeding. The price for retrans keeps rising at extraordinary rates, wrote Mediacom General Counsel Joseph Young in docket 10-71 (http://bit.ly/18H2Rjt). Broadcasters are immune to the price discipline ordinarily imposed by consumers in a truly competitive market, he wrote. Subscribers of multichannel video programming distributors “are the ones who ultimately pay for retransmission consent,” said Young. FCC rules and TV programming owners’ practices “force distributors to offer, and subscribers to buy, programming in bundles over which distributors have little or no control,” he said.