The FCC should lift a stay on a Bloomberg TV-Comcast...
The FCC should lift a stay on a Bloomberg TV-Comcast neighborhooding order with respect to 59 markets where Comcast has a single standard-definition news neighborhood on its channel lineup, Bloomberg said in an application for review filed with the commission…
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(http://xrl.us/bnpr43). Bloomberg asked the commission to review that aspect of the Media Bureau’s Aug. 14 order clarifying and staying (CD Aug 15 p15) some aspects of its earlier neighborhooding order in the proceeding. “After agreeing with Bloomberg that its complaint was explicitly limited to carriage of its SD signal, however, the Bureau nonetheless incorrectly stayed on its own motion such implementation,” Bloomberg said in its application for review. “The effect of the stay is to allow Comcast to flout the terms of the news neighborhooding conditions included in the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger Order.” A Comcast spokeswoman said the company “continues to believe the Media Bureau appropriately stayed aspects of its decision pending full Commission review in this case."