Comcast asked the FCC to stay its recent Tennis Channel...
Comcast asked the FCC to stay its recent Tennis Channel carriage order pending judicial review, as expected (CD July 26 p5). The commission gave Comcast 45 days to begin carrying the Tennis Channel on the same tier as its own…
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Golf Channel and Versus networks. In a petition filed at the FCC late Monday (http://xrl.us/bniv8t), the cable operator hit each of the points the commission is to consider when weighing a stay, arguing that it will probably win in the courts, that it would suffer irreparable injury absent a stay but Tennis Channel would not be harmed, and that a stay is in the public interest. The same reasons the commission identified when it granted a stay of an administrative law judge’s ruling in the case “compel the same conclusion now,” the petition said. “The order adopts the same basic reasoning as [the ALJ’s] Initial Decision, and therefore commits the same fundamental errors on the merits,” it said. “It also subjects the same irreparable constitutional injury and both Comcast and its customers to nearly all the same, severe concrete harms."