The Tennis Channel won a major victory in its long-standing carriage complaint against Comcast. Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge Richard Sippel ruled that Comcast must move Tennis Channel to the same programming tier as other similar affiliates, such as Comcast-owned Golf Channel and Versus.
Santa Monica. Calif.-based Tennis Channel initially filed its complaint against Comcast in late 2010, asserting that Comcast was favoring its own channels over independently owned Tennis Channel by placing it on a premium sports tier rather than a more broadly distributed sports tier.
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