Comcast updated the FCC on the amount of...
Comcast updated the FCC on the amount of news and independent programming carried in Q1, and advised the commission of some errors in a previous quarterly statement. The quarterly cable and reports were one of the requirements created by the…
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commission’s order approving Comcast’s 2011 buy of control in NBCUniversal. The report said 31,346 hours of independent content appeared on the cable networks and the TV stations last quarter, as the stations aired 6,766 hours of informational shows and news. The amount of indie content dropped 13 percent and the amount of news by just over 9 percent from the reported totals from Q4. Tuesday’s filing also included several corrections to the previous quarter’s report. Their latest filing said that in the Q4 report, NBCUniversal overreported its independent programming by 21 hours, while Sprout overreported by 109 hours. However, mun2 underreported 9 hours, meaning a net overreporting of 121 hours. Tuesday’s filing also said Telemundo Houston and Telemundo San Antonio underreported their news and information programming by a total of 54 hours and 45 minutes. The new filing is in docket 10-56 (http://bit.ly/17EJEAN).