Hi,
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation has cooked up a new fee to charge TV
provider DirecTV — and if it goes into effect, DirecTV, DirecTV Stream,
and U-Verse customers nationwide are likely to get stuck with higher
prices for their cable service.^1 Tell DirecTV: say NO to Fox’s new
carriage fee!
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to DirecTV: Don’t let Fox raise my fee!
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We need DirecTV to stand up to Fox to save consumers from exorbitant fees
because the Supreme Court has ruled cable networks like Fox fall outside
of the Federal Communications Commission’s jurisdiction.^2 In cases like
these, smaller corporations can be our ally in fighting price gouging.
But the fact that Fox is largely insulated from the FCC hasn’t stopped
Rupert Murdoch from fighting tooth and nail to sabotage this critical
institution. We haven’t had a functioning FCC for the entirety of Biden’s
presidency because the Senate — pressured by Fox and Comcast — has refused
to confirm Biden’s nominee for FCC Chair, Gigi Sohn. Comcast and Fox News
have paid for lobbyists to actively court swing votes in the Senate
against Sohn.^2
Fox News has been pushing false narratives that Gigi Sohn would harm rural
America, that she wants to censor conservatives, and that she’s bad for
media diversity. As telecoms reporter Karl Bode put it, “None of these are
supported by any facts that you can find if you spend 30 minutes
objectively researching her record.”^2
Fox’s smear campaign makes clear: cable news will stop at nothing to clear
the way for profiteering. We need TV providers to resist, and we demand
the Senate get in gear!
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to DirecTV: Don’t let Fox raise my fee!
Thanks for taking action,
Izzi and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Hollywood Reporter, “Fox Corp. and DirecTV Struggle to Reach “Fair
Agreement” Ahead of Programming Deadline,” [ [link removed] ]November 27, 2022.
2. The Verge, “The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC,” [ [link removed] ]November 3,
2022.
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