Comcast Fighting BeIN Sports' Appeal of Carriage Complaint Dismissal
BeIN Sports' application for a review of a Media Bureau order dismissing the programmer's third carriage complaint against Comcast (see 1903290054) asks the FCC "to turn a blind eye to ... deliberate gamesmanship" by beIN, the MVPD said in a…
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docket 18-384 posting Wednesday. The operator said rules don't allow additional pleadings without showing extraordinary circumstances or FCC OK, and neither happened with the latest complaint. It said the commission's procedural rules were set up at the direction of Congress, and regardless, the second and third complaints arise from the same claim and operative facts and thus the third should have been included in that earlier pleading. BeIN, in its application for review, said its second and third complaint brought separate, stand-alone claims and didn't arise from the same "nucleus" of facts. It also said the third complaint was not an additional pleading requiring extraordinary circumstances or agency OK.