Hearing in GSN/Cablevision Complaint Nears
Moving female watcher-oriented Game Show Network to a Cablevision's specialty sports tier filled with nothing but male-targeting networks is "nonsensical" and all about giving the cable company's affiliated networks the advantage, said David Goldhill, CEO of Game Show Network. It's…
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about Cablevision's facing increasingly heated competition and not seeing the kind of value for GSN in relation to the higher carriage license fees it was demanding, countered Thomas Montemagno, Cablevision executive vice president-programming. Direct written testimony from the executives was among hundreds of pages of documents filed Tuesday with the FCC in docket 12-122 regarding GSN's carriage complaint against Cablevision. Tuesday was the deadline for supplemental trial briefs and written direct testimony in the complaint brought by GSN. Objections to Tuesday's filings are due June 12, with the hearing to begin July 7. Meanwhile, Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel is considering a motion by Cablevision for summary judgment dismissing the complaint (see 1504300051">1504300051).