Media Bureau Grants Waiver of Neighborhooding Order for Comcast on Bloomberg Request
The FCC Media Bureau granted Comcast a waiver Wednesday of the “neighborhooding” condition of the order approving the Comcast/NBCUniversal deal. The move was requested by both Comcast and Bloomberg in a July petition (see 1407300059). Under the settlement between the…
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two companies, Comcast agreed to place Bloomberg Television alongside Comcast’s business channel CNBC in many of its systems. In systems where CNBC is outside the news neighborhood, the settlement agreement conflicts with the neighborhooding order, Bloomberg said in that petition. “In Bloomberg’s view, proximity to CNBC, its chief competitor, is preferable to placement in a news neighborhood that lacks CNBC,” Bloomberg said. The waiver “will promote the parties’ private resolution of this matter in a manner that is consistent with the purpose of the condition,” the Media Bureau order said.