The FCC should make Comcast widely and soon carry the Tennis Channel,...
The FCC should make Comcast widely and soon carry the Tennis Channel, the network said. It petitioned the commission to compel the cable operator’s compliance with a December recommendation by Chief FCC Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel that the independent…
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channel be carried as widely as Comcast-affiliated sports networks. Comcast wrongly “believes that it need not comply with the ruling -- and that the full burden of its ongoing and adjudicated discrimination must fall on Tennis Channel -- until Comcast has exhausted its appeal to the full Commission (and presumably through the federal courts),” the petition said. That “ignores” Section 616 of the Communications Act, which provides “that the ruling ’shall become effective upon release,'” the indie said. “Comcast Is Required To Provide Non-Discriminatory Carriage As Soon As Is Practicable,” said the start of a section on the remedies the Tennis Channel seeks. A Comcast spokeswoman said the company will make a formal response to the Tennis Channel next week. The defendant in Tennis Channel v. Comcast has asked to make an extra long response to Sippel’s decision, in a filing that will be made later this week (CD Jan 17 p11).