{"id":26160,"date":"2022-11-10T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26160"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:16:21","slug":"government-should-not-dictate-which-channels-appear-in-your-cable-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26160\/government-should-not-dictate-which-channels-appear-in-your-cable-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Should Not Dictate Which Channels Appear in Your Cable Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s thriving video content market offers consumers an endless array of options according to their own needs and tastes. So why do some in Congress seek to dictate which channels appear in your cable package?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is the question posed and addressed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/11\/04\/lee-the-government-is-here-to-help-by-telling-you-what-channels-you-can-watch\/\">recent op-ed<\/a> authored by CFIF&#8217;s Timothy Lee and published by <em>The Daily Caller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether it\u2019s discriminatory tax incentives for favored programming, preferential treatment for rural-themed channels, or partisan attempts to de-platform conservative news stations, lawmakers from both parties seem under the illusion that our almost unfathomably competitive video marketplace needs the meddling hand of Congress to fix what isn\u2019t broken,&#8221; writes Lee.<\/p>\n<p>As a current example, Lee notes that\u00a0&#8220;some lawmakers openly promote RFD-TV \u2013 a pay-TV channel owned by Rural Media Group that mixes agribusiness news content with rural-themed entertainment programming. In previous years, Rural Media Group pushed legislation that would effectively require pay-TV companies to carry RFD on their basic tiers \u2013 and to pay for the privilege, ultimately increasing costs for consumers. Although those efforts failed, the company is now back pushing a resolution to artificially impose more rural programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That resolution should be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Lee goes on to offer a simple solution: &#8220;[L]et the free market decide, and get the government out of the discussion altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/11\/04\/lee-the-government-is-here-to-help-by-telling-you-what-channels-you-can-watch\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s thriving video content market offers consumers an endless array of options according to their own needs and tastes. So why do some in Congress seek to dictate which channels appear in your cable package?&#8221; That is the question posed and addressed in a recent op-ed authored by CFIF&#8217;s Timothy Lee and published by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4465,300,4611],"class_list":["post-26160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cable","tag-regulation","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26161,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions\/26161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}