Cablevision said it will “vigorously defend against this preposterous FCC finding” (CD May...
Cablevision said it will “vigorously defend against this preposterous FCC finding” (CD May 10 p5) that the Game Show Network made a case on its face that the cable operator favored its own channels over GSN in not carrying the…
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independent cable channel as widely. “Once again, the FCC has revealed its inability to administer its duties, just as it has failed to address the broken retransmission consent system,” a Cablevision spokesman said Thursday. “It should be obvious to anyone that a channel showing game shows and one showing women’s-oriented programming are not comparable.” The Media Bureau Wednesday designated for a hearing by an FCC administrative law judge GSN’s program carriage complaint that Cablevision favored WE tv and the since-closed Wedding Channel (http://xrl.us/bm632g). A GSN spokesman declined to comment.