Program-Access Complaint Hits Home Stretch
Cable-operator defendants and a programmer complainant have made their last-ditch pitch to a Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge.
WealthTV and top cable operators on Wednesday filed their respective post-hearing reply comments and findings of fact in WealthTV's program carriage complaint against the operators. Those are essentially summaries from both sides pointing out the defects in their opponent's case and the superiority of their own arguments. That should conclude the cycle of pre-hearing, hearing and post-hearing arguments, with the decision, in the hands of FCC chief ALJ Richard Sippel, though that will not be the final call. Sippel tried their complaint last month at the direction of the FCC, which sent the WealthTV case and two other complaints to the judge for a de novo trial after an initial bureau finding of program-carriage violations did not pass muster with a majority of the commissioners.
Program-Access Complaint Hits Home Stretch