WHY THIS MATTERS:Pai, a deregulatory-minded Republican commissioner who spent almost five years heading up the loyal opposition to then-chairman Tom Wheeler's regulatory agenda, has a lot on his to-undo list as he takes the agency's reins.
WHY THIS MATTERS:The move comes on the heels of recent carriage deals with some major programmers that more than doubled the virtual MVPD's content slate.
WHY THIS MATTERS:comScore's most recent troubles come about a year after the ratings firm merged with rival measurement company Rentrak in a $780 million deal that, by combining Rentrak's set-top box data measurement expertise with comScore's digital know-how, was seen as creating a viable alternative to ratings measurement juggernaut Nielsen.