The FCC asked Comcast to list its regional sports networks...
The FCC asked Comcast to list its regional sports networks and provide information on the number of subscribers at each of the company’s cable systems, to help “the Commission in its evaluation of the various options pertaining to the exclusive…
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contract prohibition.” As the agency devises whether to extend, sunset or follow another option for program access rules barring the withholding from multichannel video programming distributors of channels affiliated with cable systems, it also asked similar questions of Cablevision (CD July 5 p16). “We are also analyzing a cable operator’s marginal profit when the cable operator acquires an additional residential customer from a competing MVPD,” Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake wrote Comcast Senior Vice President Kathy Zachem. “We are exploring two scenarios: (i) where the switching customer purchases only video services; and (ii) where the switching customer purchases the bundle of video, voice, and high-speed data services that the average customer of the cable operator purchases.” The letter dated June 27 and posted Thursday to docket 12-68 (http://xrl.us/bnfrc5) asked for by July 11 some revenue and cost figures for voice, video and broadband service. The responses can be kept confidential, under two protective orders, Lake wrote.