BeIN, Comcast Clash Over Outside Expert Access to Confidential Information
BeIN Sports and Comcast are at odds over whether beIN's hired expert, media consultant Eric Sahl, should have access to confidential Comcast information as part of the sports programmer's carriage complaint against the MVPD (see 1902060052). BeIN, in a docket…
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18-384 posting Monday, called "untenable" Comcast's objections Sahl might one day represent stations operating in the same market as NBC affiliates, as he has in the past. The protective order doesn't "give Comcast a right to object to [consultants'] future career," beIN said, adding that the protective order's limits on Sahl's ability to use confidential information in future representations should assuage Comcast fears. Comcast's objection to protective order access Friday said Sahl is involved in analysis underlying business decisions made by its competitors as well as in those business decisions themselves.