The FCC Media Bureau decided to stay the “Benchmark Condition” of...
The FCC Media Bureau decided to stay the “Benchmark Condition” of the commission’s order approving Comcast’s takeover of NBCUniversal. The order gave online video distributors the right to license Comcast-NBCU programming if a similar deal is reached with an industry…
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peer (CD Jan 7 p1). The order will be stayed until the commission has the opportunity to consider the content companies’ application for review, the bureau said in an order (http://bit.ly/XYKvF9). Because an OVD may seek programming under the condition at any time, staying the implementation of the “Benchmark Condition Order” will avoid “potential confusion in the event that the commission determines that disclosure of third-party agreements either is not required by the Comcast-NBC Universal Order or is not in the public interest, or that the terms of disclosure should be modified.”