Re: [Swprograms] OT: Regional sports networks

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

A related item in today's AP baseball notes:

"A regional sports network controlled by the Baltimore Orioles asked
the Federal Communications Commission to force Comcast to carry
Washington Nationals baseball games immediately."

A more detailed article is in the Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-te.sp.fcc15jun15,1,5863986.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
or http://tinyurl.com/dmeyz.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

On 6/15/05, Joseph Buch <joseph.buch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I believe the FCC acted in response to an intense lobbying effort by Comcast to protect its "local content" from use by competitors.  In addition to exclusive sports coverage of the Phillies, Comcast has their own news channels with regional news, advertising, and features of potential interest to its customers.  Specifying that the programming could not have been sent via satellite was the FCC's way of defining what was "local content".  They did not anticipate the wide availability of fiber paths which we have today.  Today cable TV is making a bit of a comeback against the DBS competition by offering bundled phone and internet service and digital, on-demand programming.
>

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