The FCC should not adopt a 3-million subscriber...

The FCC should not adopt a 3-million subscriber “safe harbor” for membership in a buying group, said Cox Communications representatives in meetings with staff for Commissioner Mike O'Rielly and Chairman Tom Wheeler, according to an ex parte filing Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1jYljyb). The commission should “ensure that all small and mid-sized [multichannel video programming distributors] can gain the protections of reformed buying group rules,” said the filing. A safe harbor of any size is “unnecessary,” said Cox.