Cablevision and the Game Show Network are waiting...
Cablevision and the Game Show Network are waiting to see if The Tennis Channel will be granted an en banc appeals court hearing in its case against Comcast to proceed with their own carriage dispute, said both opponents in a…
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status report filed with the FCC Tuesday (http://bit.ly/17xoWmy). The Tennis Channel filed a request in July for an en banc rehearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (CD July 17 p12), and no ruling on that petition has been issued, said GSN. The final results of the Comcast case and the precedents it might set could affect “the parties’ approach at trial in the instant action, and we expect to gain greater guidance as these matters progress,” said Cablevision. The Cablevision/GSN case was put on hold in June pending an outcome in Comcast at the companies’ request, with both required to submit periodic status updates to Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel (CD June 27 p21).