Cablevision's Appeal of GSN Decision Added to Thursday FCC Agenda
Cablevision's appeal of an administrative law judge finding it discriminated against Game Show Network (GSN) will be taken up by the commissioners at the July 13 meeting, as an item was added to the sunshine agenda released Thursday. According to…
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the agenda and the FCC, the agency will consider a memorandum opinion and order on exceptions filed by the MVPD in January to the ALJ Richard Sippel's initial decision in 2016 that GSN's retiering by the MVPD was discrimination (see 1701050019). No draft of the memorandum opinion and order was released; it had been on circulation for several weeks. Cablevision, in its exceptions, argued that being forced to follow Sippel's initial decision would violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the company's due process rights. It also urged the commissioners to follow a 2015 Enforcement Bureau decision in its favor (see 1510150044).