Maine Opposes PEG Law Injunction NCTA Sought

Cable operators have made it increasingly difficult for subscribers to find and watch public, educational and government channels, and the Cable Act allows Maine to require cable operators to return PEG stations to their original channel numbers and include the channel information in programming guides. So said state Attorney General Aaron Frey in opposition Monday to NCTA's motion for preliminary injunction of a PEG law (see 1909160027). Maine filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor (in Pacer, docket 19-cv-00420) that Congress gave local governments broad authority over PEG service provision and that the cable industry's unlikely to succeed on the merits so the preliminary injunction should be denied. NCTA didn't comment.