Bloomberg Offers New Evidence Against Comcast

FCC dragged its feet handling complaint

Hoping to light a fire under the Federal Communications Commission, Bloomberg said Tuesday it filed new evidence that Comcast continues to violate the news neighborhooding condition required by the FCC in Comcast's merger with NBCUniversal.

The neighborhooding and other conditions placed on the merger were intended to prevent Comcast from favoring NBC's and its own programming over others.

Responding to Comcast's annual report of compliance, Bloomberg submitted what it says is new evidence that Comcast continues to thumb its nose at the condition requiring it to place Bloomberg TV in the same news neighborhood with other news channels, especially Comcast-owned CNBC and MSNBC.

Bloomberg presented four new examples in small markets where since its merger with NBCU, Comcast created or changed two news neighborhoods and where Bloomberg TV is, on average, 100 channels away from Comcast-owned channels such as CNBC and MSNBC.

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