Comcast to Bloomberg: You're Wrong

Comcast believes it's in compliance with FCC condition

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Comcast has now formally responded to Bloomberg's charge that the cable giant is not meeting one of the conditions imposed on it as a result of the NBC Universal merger. In a letter sent Monday, Comcast says it is not violating the condition, which deals with "neighborhooding," and that it does not have to rejigger its cable lineup to place Bloomberg TV in the same grouping of channels as CNBC, which it now controls thanks to the NBCU deal.

In a five-page letter to Bloomberg's legal team, Comcast general counsel Arthur Block says that Bloomberg's claim rests on a faulty definition of what constitutes a news neighborhood.

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