The Supreme Court voted not to grant cert...
The Supreme Court voted not to grant cert on a petition from Tennis Channel asking the court to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the channel’s carriage complaint against Comcast (http://1.usa.gov/1hiPhsN). Tennis Channel is…
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“disappointed” but the result was “not entirely surprising given the Court’s crowded docket,” it said in a statement. “There remain a number of available options for Tennis Channel in the case, and we are considering our next steps in light of these options,” Tennis Channel said. Comcast said it’s “pleased” that the lower court ruling in its favor “will stand,” a Comcast spokesperson said in an email. Tennis Channel is still availible on Comcast systems, Comcast pointed out. The rejection of the cert petition is likely to restart the action in an ongoing program carriage case at the FCC, between the Game Show Network and Cablevision. Both parties in that case had asked FCC Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel to delay the matter pending the results of Tennis Channel’s Supreme Court filing. A joint status report is due in the GSN v. Cablevision matter in March.