Associated Press
The Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge from cable television operators to the 18-year-old requirement that they carry local broadcast stations on their systems.
The justices rejected an appeal Monday from Cablevision Systems Corp. The court upheld a federal “must carry” law, enacted in 1992 when cable TV systems faced much less competition than they do today.
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Cablevision, the nation’s fifth-largest cable TV operator, sued the Federal Communications Commission over its ruling that forced Cablevision to carry the signal of a distant home-shopping station on its Long Island cable systems. The federal appeals court in New York upheld the FCC’s determination. More…