Comcast Says Carriage Decision on TWN Based on Editorial Discretion
Christian programmer The Word Network's (TWN) carriage complaint against Comcast (see 1706090031) isn't about affiliation-based discrimination but involves Comcast's editorial discretion and business judgment, the operator said in a reply posted Monday in FCC docket 17-166. It said its increasing…
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distribution of similarly situated network Impact while decreasing TWN distribution was unrelated to affiliation since both are unaffiliated. It said conditions of Comcast/NBCUniversal approval on which TWN based part of its complaint still require that any affiliation-centric complaints establish a prima facie case of discrimination. Comcast said the conditions don't relieve the complainant of having to show differential treatment of an affiliated network that's similarly situated. Comcast also denied it ever demanded exclusive digital rights as a condition of carriage, and that such rights don't constitute a financial interest under program carriage rules. TWN didn't comment Tuesday.