Northwest, Charter End Blackout; as Legal Jostling Continued
Northwest Broadcasting channels are back on Charter Communications's lineup after the two signed a carriage agreement Thursday that ended a more than four-month blackout (see 1802060052), Northwest CEO Brian Brady emailed Friday. El Centro, California, which pursued litigation and an…
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FCC complaint against Charter (see 1804260003 and 1803210031) said Friday it is still deciding how it will proceed. The operator, which pursued litigation against El Centro (see 1805110057), also didn't comment. In a docket 18-cv-00679-AJB-PCL filing (in Pacer) Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Diego, Charter said El Centro's motion to dismiss the MVPD's suit is mistaken in arguing the court lacks jurisdiction (see 1805250020). Charter said that it's based in Connecticut is more than enough to show diversity of the parties, and it said the El Centro citations it's fighting threaten its state-issued franchise, worth far more than the jurisdictional minimum.