The FCC should grant Comcast a waiver of...
The FCC should grant Comcast a waiver of its neighborhooding order to let the cable operator fulfill the terms of its settlement with Bloomberg, that programmer said in a waiver petition posted Tuesday to docket 11-104 (http://bit.ly/1s24tzG). Under the terms…
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of the settlement, Comcast has agreed to place Bloomberg Television alongside Comcast’s competing business channel CNBC in many of its systems. In systems where CNBC is in the “news neighborhood” of other news channel, this complies with the neighborhooding order, Bloomberg said. In other systems, where CNBC is outside the news neighborhood, the settlement agreement conflicts with the neighborhooding order. “In Bloomberg’s view, proximity to CNBC, its chief competitor, is preferable to placement in a news neighborhood that lacks CNBC,” said Bloomberg. To allow that to happen, the commission should waive the order for the “small number” of Comcast systems where CNBC is not in the news neighborhood, Bloomberg said. Comcast supports the request, the petition said.