President Kyle McSlarrow of Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington attacked a May FCC...
President Kyle McSlarrow of Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington attacked a May FCC administrative law judge (ALJ) decision that would force the cable operator to carry the Tennis Channel more broadly on its cable systems. Writing on the cable operator’s blog, McSlarrow called…
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the ALJ’s decision, which the commission has since stayed (CD May 16 p9), “a breathtaking regulatory overreach” (http://xrl.us/bng3kf). “We're hopeful that the newly reconstituted FCC will reject that decision,” he wrote. The FCC is expected to vote on implementing the ALJ’s recommended decision soon (CD July 10 p3). The arguments raised in the blog post are not new, a Tennis Channel spokesman said. “Besides including numerous factual inaccuracies (e.g., DirecTV and DISH provide Tennis Channel with distribution many times larger than does Comcast), there is nothing new in this blog post that Comcast hasn’t already argued in front of the FCC, and that hasn’t already been rejected by the ALJ, the FCC Enforcement Bureau and the FCC Media Bureau."