FCC Temporarily Stays Enforcement of Tennis Channel Decision

The Federal Communications Commission has stayed the administrative law judge decision granting Tennis Channel's program carriage complaint against Comcast, but only until the FCC commissioners vote on Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal "addressing the Tennis Channel's petition to compel compliance and Comcast's petition for conditional stay." Chairman Genachowski has issues with the decision and his proposed order says the stay will allow that reexamination of the record while "avoiding potential disruption to consumers and third-party programmers in the event that the commission subsequently reverses or modifies the ALJ's remedy."