FCC should allow more time for replies in Comcast/TWC, say Dish, other MVPDs
The FCC should allow more time for reply comments in the Comcast/Time Warner Cable proceeding, said Choice Cable, Comptel, Dish Network, Grande Communications, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, RCN and Writers Guild of America, West in a motion for an extension…
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posted in docket 14-57 Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1wmxhny). Though the FCC has already extended the deadline to Oct. 29, much of the information requested from the companies hasn't been available, said Dish and co-filers. The lack of information that necessitated the first extension has been “further compounded” by programmers objecting to their confidential documents becoming part of the record, they said. With so much information still unavailable to parties in the proceeding, the FCC should extend the reply deadline to 30 days after Comcast, Charter Communications and TWC responses to the commission’s information requests are made available and the FCC has resolved the dispute over its modified confidentiality order, said the joint filing. “Good cause for an extension exists because of the importance of the still unavailable materials.” Charter would get some divested cable systems.