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Retransmission consent is expected to come up at Thursday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on media competition and the Comcast-NBC Universal deal, Senate staffers said. The issue has heated up in Washington since last week’s dispute between Cablevision and ABC. FCC…
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Chairman Julius Genachowski was invited to testify at the hearing. Retransmission consent will “definitely” be discussed, a staffer said. Another noted that the hearing’s original title had referred to the Comcast deal, but it was changed this week to reflect a broader discussion of broadband and media competition. The shift increases the chances of a retransmission-consent discussion, the staffer said.