According to Upstate TV Station WGRZ, State Senator Mark Grisanti is hoping to make it so that companies like Time Warner Cable and MSG would go to arbitration if a deal between the two sides can’t be reached.
Grisanti is proposing a change in the NYS Public Service law, which would not only require that cable companies “negotiate fairly” when it comes to carriage agreements, but perhaps more importantly, the amended law would require that — when terms of a carriage agreement can’t be reached, — that the two sides be compelled to enter into arbitration of the matter.
This would at least force both sides to the table, something that can’t currently be done.
The article has a statement from MSG saying that there has been no progress in the talks.
