NCTA Meets With Commissioner Staff on Set-tops

Multichannel video programming distributor apps allow consumers to view MVPD content on multiple devices without endangering licensing and copyright agreements, said NCTA in meetings with aides to FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, Mike O’Rielly and Ajit Pai last week. The “government intervention” into navigation devices “could increase consumer costs, threaten security, ignore content licensing agreements, and undermine consumer protections,” said the association in a filing posted Monday to docket 15-64. NCTA and other pay-TV programmers and distributors have opposed a coming NPRM to make it easier for non-MVPD set-top boxes to get content that's now mainly received in homes via an MVPD-provided set-top.