Bloomberg Wins FCC Complaint Against Comcast

Comcast must move Bloomberg TV to its news neighborhoods

No more searching in the nosebleed numbers for Bloomberg TV on Comcast Cable's lineup. The Federal Communications Commission's media bureau Wednesday ordered Comcast to move Bloomberg TV next to other news channels, such as Comcast-owned MSNBC and CNBC, on its news lineups.

The order was a big win for Bloomberg, which filed a complaint against Comcast last June for violating the neighborhooding condition the FCC placed on the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal.

To prevent Comcast from favoring its own programming, such as CNBC and MSNBC over others, the FCC required Comcast to carry all independent news and business news channels next to other similar channels on line ups where Comcast has program neighborhoods.

In its complaint, Bloomberg argued that Bloomberg TV was often 100 or more channel positions away from other news channels on Comcast's lineups.

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