Cablevision of Marion County is currently in discussions with the FCC to keep cable TV rates from being increased simply because TV Broadcast Stations want more money.
When Cable TV was created years ago, Broadcast TV Stations begged local cable companies to carry their programming. This gave the TV Stations a much larger viewing audience—thus allowing them to charge advertisers a higher rate. In return, Cable TV Companies agreed to pay content owners (or artists) annual copyright fees since their programming was being aired on the cable TV channels.
Now the TV Broadcasters are demanding the cable companies pay a significant fee to continue carrying their local TV stations. This will require the cable companies to pay more to the copyright owners AND also to the TV broadcasters. The cable companies are fighting this proposal on behalf of you, the cable subscribers. The reason?—not only is it unfair but the amount being asked by the broadcasters is extremely high; therefore, if paid by the cable company, cable subscriber rates would increase significantly.
We urge each of our cable TV subscribers to call and write their elected representatives to protest these unfair charges.
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