The FCC should add the Bloomberg/Comcast channel placement...
The FCC should add the Bloomberg/Comcast channel placement dispute to the agenda for its Sept. 26 open meeting, said Bloomberg in an ex parte letter filed Friday (http://bit.ly/14nNYAs). The dispute is about a condition of the Comcast/NBCUniversal merger that requires…
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Comcast to place independent news and business channels in the same neighborhood of its programming guide where it carries other news and business channels, if it groups such channels together at all. Comcast has disputed that it groups channels into such a neighborhood, and a Bloomberg complaint after the merger led to a Media Bureau order saying Comcast did have some news neighborhoods on some systems. However, that order was clarified as only applicable to standard definition systems and then stayed by the bureau pending commission review (CD July 1 p7). “The arguments in this matter are well known and the pleading cycle ended more than ten months ago,” said the filing. The matter has been listed as being on circulation since February, and the commission should address it this month, said the ex parte.