Comcast and Bloomberg again traded filings in their long-running neighborhooding...
Comcast and Bloomberg again traded filings in their long-running neighborhooding channel placement dispute. Bloomberg has sought channel placement of its Bloomberg TV network in the same neighborhood as other news networks. The latest filings -- replies to each other’s oppositions…
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to previously filed applications for review of an earlier FCC Media Bureau order in the dispute -- conclude the pleading cycle. “The Commission has the full record necessary to make decisions,” said Greg Babyak, Bloomberg’s head of government affairs. “We believe the decision on the 59 systems which are the subject of today’s filing should be rapid,” he said. Bloomberg has argued Comcast, under a condition of the FCC’s approval of its buyout of NBCUniversal, should put its standard-definition networks in news neighborhoods, but Comcast has said it should only be required to put Bloomberg TV’s HD feed in a neighborhood. “Providing Comcast with discretion over which news neighborhood to place an independent news network is not ‘illogical,’ as Bloomberg claims,” Comcast said in its reply (http://xrl.us/bnteug). “The Condition should be satisfied when one feed of BTV is placed in one neighborhood,” it said. Bloomberg said it only requested SD relief in its initial complaint, its reply said. The document had not been posted to the FCC’s website by our deadline. Moreover, the HD and SD feeds of the network are different, it said. “Comcast cannot now treat SD and HD channels as the same for compliance purposes,” it said.