TW Files Suit vs. DirecTV

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NEW YORK Time Warner Cable late Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court against DirecTV, accusing the satellite operator of false advertising and deceptive business practices related to its carriage of NFL Network.

In a 28-page complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, TW claimed DirecTV ran newspaper ads in local NFL markets, including New York, Green Bay and Cincinnati, that said football fans would be locked out of certain in-market NFL Net games unless they subscribed to DirecTV.

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