Do you enjoy streaming video services like Netflix, Disney+, Max, or YouTube TV because of how different they are than traditional cable TV services? Thanks to Uncle Sam, that might change.
That’s because senior members of Congress have recently floated the idea of the Federal Communications Commission extending regulations that today apply to traditional cable TV companies like Comcast, Charter, and DISH—multichannel video programming distributors, or “MVPDs” in FCC-speak—to online streamers. These wouldn’t just be extended to over-the-top traditional cable competitors like YouTube TV or Sling; they’d also be extended to services like Netflix, Prime, and Disney+, whose offerings bear little or no resemblance to linear cable programming.
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