Tennis Channel Files FCC Complaint

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The Tennis Channel has filed a complaint about Comcast with the FCC, alleging the cable giant is discriminating against networks it doesn’t own.

The Tennis Channel’s complaint, filed Tuesday, points to Comcast’s carriage of the channel on a premium sports tier that is different from the one on which the cable operator carries its own Versus and Golf networks.

Comcast said in a statement it is offering the Tennis Channel in accordance with a carriage deal the two signed a few years ago.

The dispute comes at a time when Comcast is ramping up work to get regulatory approval for its deal to take a 51 percent stake in entertainment firm NBC Universal.

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