The FCC delayed the comment cycle for two weeks on Comcast and...
The FCC delayed the comment cycle for two weeks on Comcast and NBCUniversal’s request to see online video distributors’ deals with other broadcast, cable and film content owners. That’s several weeks less than CBS, Disney, News Corp., Sony Pictures, Time…
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Warner and Viacom sought, though Comcast and NBCUniversal opposed any delay (CD March 20 p4). Initial comments now are due April 3, replies April 17 in docket 10-56, said a Thursday order signed by Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake (http://xrl.us/bmy5br). Public Knowledge sees “hypocrisy” in Comcast not allowing details of “the world-changing joint venture with Verizon” Wireless to be made public while wanting an OVD “to tell everything about sensitive negotiations it has with other cable providers about carrying programming,” a spokesman for the group said. “Comcast is free to take such a self-serving approach, but the Commission is not,” the nonprofit, seeking release of agreements between Comcast and other cable operators and Verizon Wireless involving spectrum sales and marketing agreements, said in an FCC filing. “For Comcast, the sensitivity of information and the right to redact apparently are determined by a single criterion: what rule best serves Comcast’s interests in a particular situation,” Public Knowledge said Wednesday in docket 12-4 (http://xrl.us/bmy5bz). A Comcast spokeswoman declined to comment.