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WASHINGTON Federal regulators on Tuesday said they would seek to determine whether to establish new ownership limits for cable operators.
The action by the Federal Communications Commission is part of its response to a 2001 court ruling that vacated a regulation limiting any single cable company’s size. The regulation said a company could serve up to 30 percent of the homes receiving multi-channel video services, a category that includes homes served by direct-broadcast satellite.
Since the ruling by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, there has been no ceiling on cable operator size.
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