FCC members should “take First Amendment principles seriously” and grant...
FCC members should “take First Amendment principles seriously” and grant Comcast’s request to not accept an administrative law judge’s recommendation the cable operator be required to carry the Tennis Channel more broadly (CD Jan 23 p3), a foe of regulation…
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said. “The ALJ’s Tennis Channel ruling is especially problematic because it is unmistakably content-based,” wrote Seth Cooper on the Free State Foundation’s blog Monday (http://xrl.us/bmw23k). “The ALJ analyzed and compared the respective programming of the Tennis Channel with the Golf Channel and Versus,” two networks which Comcast owns, Cooper noted. “How could the ALJ’s order be said to promote programming diversity if Comcast drops the Tennis Channel along with its affiliated channels?"