The FCC administrative law judge who heard the NFL’s program carr...
The FCC administrative law judge who heard the NFL’s program carriage complaint against Comcast denied the cable operator’s request (CD April 10 p11) that the league not be able to distance itself in the case from their contract. A…
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Friday order from Chief FCC ALJ Richard Sippel said there’s no inconsistency between the NFL’s New York court case over the contract and its contention at the commission that putting the NFL Network on a sports tier violated section 616 of the Communications Act. By seeking “to vindicate its alleged private contractual rights in the New York litigation and its alleged federal statutory and regulatory rights in this case” the league isn’t trying to disavow the deal, as Comcast contended, Sippel wrote.