Cablevision to Petition Supreme Court on Must-Carry

Cablevision is planning on asking the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of the Second Circuit's upholding of the Federal Communications Commission's must-carry mandate for station WRNN. The company is taking aim at the entire must-carry regime armed with the decision by the D.C. Circuit earlier in Comcast v. FCC this year, which threw out the 30% cap on one cable operator's sub count. It plans to argue that the lack of robust competition and presence of a cable bottleneck no longer exist, and were the underpinnings of the Supreme Court's close decisions to uphold the rules in two earlier challenges by Turner.