{"id":420869,"date":"2010-03-12T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79115"},"modified":"2010-03-12T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:02:28","slug":"prior-to-comcast-nbc-ruling-court-upholds-ban-on-channel-exclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420869","title":{"rendered":"Prior to Comcast-NBC Ruling, Court Upholds Ban on Channel Exclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC&#8217;s ban on withholding programs from its cable competitors should be thrown out. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704131404575117653544357566.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\" >The courts disagreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp. had challenged the FCC&#8217;s decision to keep the rule in place, arguing that the prohibition wasn&#8217;t necessary to preserve competition in the paid-TV market.The U.S. Court Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected that challenge in a 2-1 ruling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-79115\"><\/span>The ban was initially passed in by Congress in 1992 and will now remain in effect through 2012. After that, if the ban doesn&#8217;t remain in place, Comcast will be able to keep Cablevision and other competitors from broadcasting MSNBC, Bravo, SyFy and USA, among other channels. They are currently arguing that &#8220;competition&#8221; will keep them from doing so &#8212; but competition in non-monopoly cable markets is actually the only reason Comcast would be interested in removing the exclusivity ban in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC&#8217;s ban on withholding programs from its cable competitors should be thrown out. The courts disagreed. Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp. had challenged the FCC&#8217;s decision to keep the rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}