ATVA Statement: Time Warner Cable and Disney

Aug 30, 2010

Customers are consistently either threatened with the potential loss of signals, or they have to endure the actual loss of signals because the retransmission consent process is broken.  The potential Time Warner Cable/Disney agreement doesn’t address the underlying problem that the broadcasters have the ability to put customers in a no-win situation.  This is a real and growing problem, and one that should be reviewed by policymakers.