The FCC stayed the effective date of certain aspects of its...
The FCC stayed the effective date of certain aspects of its Comcast Bloomberg neighborhooding carriage order, which was set to take effect Aug. 15. Pending the FCC’s action on each party’s application for review the FCC stayed the neighborhooding order…
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“with respect to any headend that (i) carries BTV SD, (ii) does not carry BTV SD in an SD news neighborhood, (iii) has multiple news neighborhoods (regardless of whether those neighborhoods are HD or SD), and (iv) has no vacant channel adjacent to any SD news neighborhood,” a memorandum opinion and order released Tuesday said (http://xrl.us/bnkpy7). The order also gave Comcast more time to comply with the order on headends with a single standard-definition news neighborhood and no adjacent vacant channels, it said. For the rest of Comcast headends subject to the order, Comcast’s stay request is moot “because Comcast has completed its compliance on those headends,” the order said. The commission’s Tuesday order, coupled with the FCC’s initial neighborhood order, is a “big win for the public and independent programmers,” Greg Babyak, head of government affairs at Bloomberg LP, said in an e-mailed statement. “We urge Comcast to comply with the remaining obligations under the Merger Order, and urge Chairman Genachowski and the Commission to address the remaining issues with dispatch."