Comcast laid out an agreement with Bloomberg over which elements...
Comcast laid out an agreement with Bloomberg over which elements of an FCC Media Bureau carriage order would be stayed by the bureau, in a letter to bureau Chief Bill Lake (http://xrl.us/bncgdk). “Comcast will proceed with moving BTV [Bloomberg TV]…
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into ‘news neighborhoods’ (as defined by the Bureau)” by July 1 “on lineups that have exactly one news neighborhood, which has a channel vacancy in or adjacent to that news neighborhood,” the cable operator said. “It appears there are a total of 105 lineups in this sub-set.” Comcast will by Aug. 15 move BTV to a news neighborhood on an additional 32 systems where there’s only one such neighborhood but no channel vacancy in or around it. Comcast argued it needs some leeway to decide where to place BTV’s standard definition and HD feeds, including the ability select “between an SD and HD neighborhood -- not just which SD neighborhood to select,” it said. Comcast wants to generally focus on putting BTV’s HD feed in news neighborhoods, it said. “Comcast also believes this channel placement ultimately benefits Bloomberg by accelerating the launch of BTV’s HD feed,” the operator said. “Comcast’s plan would be to maintain BTV’s SD feed in place, thereby ensuring that BTV viewers will continue to find the network at its accustomed channel position with no disruption. Requiring Comcast to ‘neighborhood’ both SD and HD feeds would ... substantially increase the number of major channel realignments and associated customer disruption."