Gormally, Charter Clashing Over Documents in Retrans Litigation
Gormally Broadcasting and Charter Communications -- in litigation over retransmission agreement terms for Charter carrying Gormally station signals outside that station's designated market area -- are dueling over a Gormally motion to compel. Charter in a docket 3:16-cv-30152 opposition (in…
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Pacer) Friday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Massachusetts, said Gormally seeking production of documents over Charter paying other TV stations for subscribers outside the station's DMA has no bearing on its and the broadcaster's understanding of their contract. Charter said Gormally's discovery requests would necessitate "a massive and burdensome document collection and review effort" outsized to the $396,000 Gormally seeks. Gormally's motion to compel (in Pacer) last month said seeking whether Charter paid a fee on out-of-DMA subscribers to other stations "is an extremely narrow category of information" that's central to the legal fight.