Bloomberg files FCC complaint against Comcast

Bloomberg filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission accusing Comcast of favoring its own programming. Bloomberg argues Comcast is violating the conditions of its federally approved merger with NBC-Universal by refusing to group Boomberg’s “BTV” network near other news and business/news channel on its cable networks.

Bloomberg's complaint contends that “BTV” has long been ignored by Comcast as the company has revised channel lineups to establish or maintain news neighborhoods. A “news neighborhood” is created when a significant number or percentage of news and/or business channels are placed substantially adjacent to one another in a system's channel lineup. Comcast argues it has not grouped news channels into the same “neighborhoods” since its merger.