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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: NFL NETWORK FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST COMCAST |
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NFL Network today filed a carriage complaint at the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) against Comcast’s anti-consumer and anti-competitive treatment of NFL Network. The complaint focuses on Comcast’s discriminatory treatment of NFL Network compared to national sports networks that Comcast owns.
The complaint demonstrates that Comcast systems uniformly carry Comcast-owned sports networks on a widely-distributed basic tier, while relegating NFL Network to a sports tier for which subscribers must pay substantial additional fees. NFL Network’s television ratings and average viewership exceed those of more widely distributed Comcast-owned national sports networks. This discriminatory treatment of NFL Network is a violation of the 1992 Cable Act.
Comcast also is retaliating against NFL Network because the NFL decided not to sell an annual package of eight regular-season games to a Comcast-owned sports network, in part because Comcast insisted on an unacceptable condition in the deal that would have violated the NFL’s longstanding policy of free over-the-air television coverage of games in the cities of the two competing teams. This retaliatory behavior is a separate violation of the 1992 Cable Act.
NFL Network is asking the FCC to order Comcast to stop discriminating and to carry NFL Network on a basis that does not impair its ability to compete fairly.
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