The FCC unveiled a heavily censored version of a Comcast response...
The FCC unveiled a heavily censored version of a Comcast response to the Commission’s request for data on the firm’s proposed purchase of Adelphia cable systems with Time Warner for $17.6 billion. After the firms asked to keep certain…
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material private (CD Dec 22 p8), the resulting 8 cartons of documents were condensed into a 23- page public filing. In response to a Commission request for a list of rival pay TV firms and technology they use, Comcast said it’s “continuing to gather the data necessary to provide a complete response.” Comcast’s filing reached the FCC Dec. 22, 3 days after it and Adelphia were supposed to deliver their responses. Comcast’s filing would clock in at about 4,000 pages, a company official said last month (CD Dec 21 p9). The redacted version was made available electronically Dec. 30, a Media Bureau spokeswoman said. A paper copy was available Dec. 23, she said.