D.C. Memo: Verizon Calls NAB's Idea MVPDs Want TV Blackouts 'Nonsense'

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Retrans Blackout: The National Association of Broadcasters says cable and satellite TV providers like signal blackouts because they help with their lobbying in Washington, D.C., to reform the carriage negotiation law known as retransmission consent. “That is nonsense,” Verizon said Monday in an FCC filing. “Verizon has no interest in manufacturing a ser…