Ted Hearn reports at Multichannel News that Liberty Media has told Virtual Digital Cable it no longer has permission to stream QVC, leaving AOL as the only external site offering OVC live. Some interesting back story here: a few weeks ago when AOL started to stream QVC and I wrote that it was the first external portal, VDC co-founder Michael Wolf took exception. I pointed out that it was free on AOL and subscription on VDC; he moved QVC from behind the subscription wall and started offering it for free. .
Separately, earlier last month VDC filed a complaint with FCC, saying it was entitled to offer Time Warner networks under a program access law that; it is the first web site to claim coverage under the act that requires satellite-delivered cable programming from companies affiliated with cable operators must be made available to multichannel-video-programming distributors. Liberty Media could be in a bit of a bind here — it’s seeking permission to acquire News Corp.’s majority interest in DirecTV and, as part of that, is promising that it will respect that law.
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