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Congress is now weighing in on the retransmission impasse between ABC Television’s WABC-TV and Cablevision.
While Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is making himself the arbiter of retransmission standoffs, urging Federal Communications Commission involvement, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) is arguing there should be no government interference.
No one, neither legislators nor consumers, are happy about the looming prospect of WABC-TV going dark Sunday (March 7) on Cablevision’s system serving Long Island, Westchester, Brooklyn and the Bronx (N.Y.).
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