High Court Shoots Down 'Must Carry' Review

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Cablevision’s request for a review of the rules that require cable operators to carry local broadcast TV stations on their systems, known as “must carry.”

Cablevision, Time Warner and others argued that the “must carry” rule Congress set in 1992 violated the cable systems’ First Amendment rights. Specifically, Cablevision of Long Island, N.Y., did not want to carry WRNN-TV in Kingston, N.Y., that airs home-shopping programming and some local news.

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