Game Show Network said it wants Cablevision to be required...
Game Show Network said it wants Cablevision to be required to allow GSN discovery of two of the cable operator’s executives involved in “key decisions” to move the independent programmer to a less-popular tier. Cablevision won’t produce documents for the…
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channel’s FCC program carriage complaint case from former Cablevision President of Cable & Communications John Bickham and won’t make available for deposition CEO James Dolan, GSN said in a filing posted Thursday to docket 12-122 (http://xrl.us/bn33u4). It asked Chief FCC Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel to order Cablevision to “produce responsive documents” for Bickham within 10 days and require the operator to provide dates for Dolan’s deposition. An administrative law hearing is to start next year at the commission on GSN v. Cablevision, where the plaintiff contends the defendant favored its own channels over the indie (CD May 10 p5). GSN’s comparison of its shows versus those on the Cablevision-affiliated WE tv conflates “old game shows” with “programming for all women” and that makes “a mockery of the FCC’s program carriage rules,” a Cablevision spokesman said: The defendant thinks Sippel “will see through this self-serving ploy and reject GSN’s claim."