Bloomberg and Comcast filed oppositions to the other’s applications that...
Bloomberg and Comcast filed oppositions to the other’s applications that the FCC review a Media Bureau order requiring the cable operator change the channel position of Bloomberg TV in certain markets (CD June 6 p12). “If Comcast truly believed that…
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the news neighborhood condition [of the order approving its NBCUniversal takeover] was too burdensome, it should have filed a petition for reconsideration with the Commission, or rejected the Commission’s grant of its application and proceeded to an administrative hearing,” Bloomberg said (http://xrl.us/bnb9pv). “Comcast cannot gain the substantial benefits resulting from its merger with NBCU and then contest, after the fact, the validity of the very conditions that allowed it to obtain those benefits.” Comcast opposed Bloomberg’s application that the commission grant what the operator termed “even broader and more disruptive relief” than what was contemplated in the merger order (http://xrl.us/bnb9qh). “In essence, Bloomberg asks the Commission to compel Comcast to locate Bloomberg Television (BTV) next to CBNBC throughout its lineups, even though the Commission declined ... to require this as part of the news neighborhood condition,” the operator said.