Comcast To Challenge 30% Cap In U.S. Court of Appeals

On April 24, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in Comcast's challenge of a Federal Communications Commission decision to reinstate a cap on cable ownership. In 2007, the FCC voted to restore the 30% cap, saying that it wanted to make sure no cable operator or group of operators could "impede the flow of programming to its consumers" because of its size. The decision came after the same DC court instructed the FCC to either throw out the cap or better justify its continued existence, which the FCC tried to do.