A5870 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to demand unreasonable fees or other financial obligations for channel carriage; defines terms; makes related provisions.
- Title
- Relates to agreements between multichannel video programming distributors and video programmers
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Judiciary
- Introduced
- 2025-02-24
- Same as
- S4653
- Law section
- General Obligations Law
Sponsors
- Michaelle C. Solages Assembly Member, District 22
Co-sponsors
- George Alvarez Assembly Member, District 78
- Jo Anne Simon Assembly Member, District 52
- Michael Benedetto Assembly Member, District 82
Heard in committee
- Judiciary NY State Assembly committee
Same as
- S4653 (2025-26 session) NY State bill