The FCC Media Bureau released a redacted copy (http://xrl.us/bn4y44) of its decision...
The FCC Media Bureau released a redacted copy (http://xrl.us/bn4y44) of its decision on Project Concord and Comcast’s appeals of an arbitration over how much and at what cost Project Concord can license NBCUniversal content. The case was the first arbitration…
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brought under the FCC’s so-called “Threshold Condition” to approving the Comcast-NBCUniversal transaction that gave some online video distributors some rights to access Comcast-controlled programming. The bureau had ruled against Comcast in part, saying NBCU’s first-year films weren’t excluded from the conditions, but also declined to grant Project Concord attorneys’ fees that resulted from the dispute (CD Nov 15 p9). Additionally, the bureau reversed the arbitrator’s decision that certain standard contracts had prevented it from licensing some programming to Project Concord.