Media Bureau Dismisses StogMedia Ask for Cox Carriage

Cox isn't required to carry leased access programming on its cable system without reasonable insurance covering that programming, the FCC Media Bureau ordered Tuesday, denying StogMedia's petition for relief (see 1801110047). The bureau said it wasn't looking at reasonableness of the terms of the insurance Cox requested since there's no evidence that StogMedia requested the MVPD justify the reasonableness of those terms. The bureau said StogMedia isn't precluded from raising the reasonableness issue in the future when it meets the threshold requirement of getting coverage for the programming at issue. StogMedia didn't comment.