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See also First Amendment (scarcity doctrine) Cable programmers and cable operators engage in and transmit speech, and they are entitled to the protection of the speech and press provisions of the First Amendment. Leathers v. Medlock, 499 U. S. 439, 444 (1991). Through 'original programming or by exercising editorial discretion over which stations or programs to include in its repertoire,' cable programmers and operators 'see[k] to communicate messages on a wide variety of topics and in a wide variety of formats.' Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications, Inc., 476 U. S. 488, 494 (1986). 

Cable television does not suffer from the ...