■ CAR Leader Concerned Disney/ABC Has Become ‘An Arm of a Single Political Party’■ FCC Covered List Expanded to Include Foreign ‘Advanced Robotic Devices’■ New Mexico Hails New Additions to the Statewide Broadband Education Network■ Victoria Backer Named Chief Operating Officer at NTCA■ MCTV President Katherine Gessner Leaves ACA Connects Board after Sale to ArmstrongRetrans: Pay-TV operators, in so many words, accused the FCC of flip-flopping on ways to resolve retransmission consent policy disputes. The American Television Alliance urged the FCC to revise its draft order repealing the 39% national television ownership cap, arguing the proposal contradicts past FCC guidance and would raise retransmission‑consent costs for consumers. ATVA is backed by DIRECTV and DISH Network and a group of cable TV operators. “It is highly arbitrary for the FCC to tell parties in a rulemaking on broadcast ownership limits to raise their arguments in individual transactions and to then tell parties in individual transactions to raise these very arguments in rulemakings,” Nilsson wrote . (More after paywall)ATVA counsel Michael Nilsson