An FCC program carriage hearing was delayed a week, to start...
An FCC program carriage hearing was delayed a week, to start March 26 at 10 a.m., with additional days of testimony in Game Show Network v. Cablevision to begin at 9:30 a.m., the administrative law judge handling the dispute ordered.…
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That gives him “sufficient time to rule on the parties’ objections” because other dates in the case were also changed at the request of the two companies, said the order by Chief FCC ALJ Richard Sippel that was posted Thursday in docket 12-122 (http://bit.ly/1204tqj). The Enforcement Bureau didn’t object to the plaintiff and defendant’s request (http://bit.ly/XQSzXe) for Sippel to require that trial briefs and written direct testimony be exchanged March 5, a few days later than required in a previous order by the ALJ, the new order said. GSN alleges Cablevision didn’t carry it as widely as the operator’s affiliated channels because the plaintiff’s not owned by the defendant. Cablevision contends GSN’s programming is different from that of the affiliated networks (CD Dec 15 p8).