FCC Reverses Decision On MASN's Time Warner Cable Complaint

The Federal Communications Commission has reversed a two-year-old bureau-level decision and concluded that Time Warner Cable (TWC ) did not discriminate against MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), which means the cable operator won't have to deliver the network and its Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles games to its subs in North Carolina. That comes over two years after Time Warner challenged an FCC Media Bureau decision to uphold an outside arbiter's finding that Time Warner Cable had discriminated against the regional sports net by not agreeing to carry it on a widely viewed analog tier.