The FCC should review the benchmark condition in...
The FCC should review the benchmark condition in its order approving Comcast buying control of NBCUniversal, said representatives of Disney, Fox, Viacom and Time Warner in a meeting Thursday with aides to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, stated an ex parte…
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filing in docket 10-56 (http://bit.ly/11ZxhNF). The condition allows online video distributors (OVD) to license Comcast-NBCUniversal programming if a similar deal is reached with an industry peer. The companies involved in the filing object to Comcast interpretation of the rule that would require OVDs invoking it to share information about third-party contracts with Comcast-NBCUniversal. Viacom, Disney and the other companies filed an application for review of the condition in January, and the Media Bureau stayed the condition in March (CD March 8 p16). Comcast and NBCUniversal haven’t demonstrated a need for the condition, and “there is no current need or cause for the stay to be lifted,” said the ex parte filing. It said that letting Comcast “amass a body of information about competitors and the OVD programming marketplace would benefit [Comcast-NBCUniversal] and run counter to sound competitive policy."