The U.S. District Court for the Southern District...
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Viacom’s motion to dismiss an antitrust suit filed by Cablevision. The motion was dismissed Friday in an opinion by Judge Laura Swain. Cablevision alleged that in order to…
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carry core networks Viacom forced it into carrying 14 networks that its customers don’t watch (CD Feb 27/13 p11). Cablevision said it’s “gratified” that the court ruled that Cablevision stated “a valid antitrust claim against Viacom for illegal channel tying.” Cablevision continues to believe that “Viacom’s tying of its popular networks to carriage of its lesser-watched ancillary networks is illegal, anti-consumer and wrong,” it said in a statement.