The procedural back-and-forth between Bloomberg and Comcast over carriage of...
The procedural back-and-forth between Bloomberg and Comcast over carriage of Bloomberg TV continued this week. Comcast asked the FCC to stay a recent Media Bureau order in response to Bloomberg’s application that the commission review parts of it. That prompted…
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Bloomberg to ask for more time to respond to Comcast’s motion to stay the rule. Comcast filed the stay motion because of the confusion and uncertainty that resulted from Bloomberg’s application for review, it said (http://xrl.us/bnbkpn). “In what can only be characterized as gross over-reaching, Bloomberg claims it is entitled to be placed not just in one neighborhood, as decided by the Media Bureau, but also in all neighborhoods found in a given lineup -- even if that means Bloomberg TV (BTV) will appear in three different locations on the lineup,” Comcast said. That, combined with Bloomberg’s challenge of the bureau’s definition of a news channel make it “enormously complicated and risky for Comcast to proceed with compliance on its original timetable and to deal with potential requests by other independent news networks,” it said. Bloomberg said it needs a few more days to respond to Comcast’s latest pleadings. “Bloomberg’s response will be filed well before the July 1, 2012 implementation date,” it said (http://xrl.us/bnbk).