With an agreement set to expire tonight, a letter from the National Cable Television Cooperative strives to forestall a Viacom blackout for rural cablecos.
Customers of small cable operators could face a Viacom blackout as Viacom’s contract with the National Cable Television Cooperative is about to expire and Viacom wants a big price increase.
Depending on their deal with content providers, cable companies in the NCTC can now make content available on smartphones, computers, and
NCTC has created a petition drive asking members to write to the Obama administration to initiate a process to update the retransmission consent system.
The nearly 1,000 members of the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), which are mainly rural cable companies, have some new transport options,