Cablevision Retiering Complaint Was Timely, GSN Says
The FCC has been clear in saying a Section 616 programming discrimination complaint that's filed within a year of a programmer letting a multichannel programming distributor know it intends to file that complaint and within a year of that discrimination…
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is timely, Game Show Network said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 12-122. The filing was in opposition to Cablevision's push for a review of the 2012 Media Bureau hearing designation order on GSN's carriage complaint (see 1612230049). GSN also said the bureau 2008 hearing designation order on the NFL Network's complaint against Comcast, and the full FCC in its 2012 Tennis Channel order, found those complaints timely under similar circumstances, and Cablevision now gives no reason for the FCC to reverse longstanding precedent. The programmer said Cablevision's pointing to a pending rulemaking about clarifying the time limits in Communications Act Section 616 cases only confirms that GSN's complaint was timely, since the proposal would have the language that better hews to the way the rule has been repeatedly interpreted. Cablevision didn't comment.