NFL Network

Comcast Drops Suit Against DirecTV over NFL Sunday Ticket

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:26:20 -0400

Full article: Vision2Mobile
Josh Long
Comcast says it's withdrawing a lawsuit against its rival DirecTV in a case over whether the satellite TV provider misrepresented that customers could receive free NFL games.

In Lockout, a Close Eye Falls on the NFL Network

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:22:45 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Richard Sandomir
In the brief history of league-owned cable networks, none have covered a work stoppage until now. The NFL Network's reporting about the owners' lockout of players is a way to shift assumptions that the channel will give knee-jerk priority to management's position.

NFL's Cable Play

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:46:56 -0400

Full article: New York Post
Claire Atkinson
The NFL has jumped into the increasingly tangled morass of disputes between content providers and the cable and satellite companies that distribute them.

Tagliabue Testifies before FCC Judge at NFL Network-Comcast Trial

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:47:06 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
John Eggerton
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue told a FCC judge that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts used the veiled threat of collaborative action by the cable industry if the league did not license an eight-game package to its network. The league eventually decided to keep the games and put them on its NFL Network.

FCC Steps into Comcast-NFL Network Fight

Stevie Converse — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:39:26 -0400

Full article: Philadelphia Inquirer
Bob Fernandez
Comcast and the NFL Network are taking their program-carriage beef to Washington, where they will butt heads in a courtroom at the FCC. It's the first big test at the agency of a 1992 federal law that prohibits cable companies, such as Comcast, from favoring their own entertainment content over that of independents, such as the NFL Network.

Copps Reverses Media Bureau Field

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:48:47 -0500

Full article: Multichannel News
John Eggerton
The FCC, in the first big move under acting chairman Michael Copps, has reversed the Media Bureau and returned a half-dozen program access complaints to an administrative law judge.

Comcast, FCC's Chief Battle One Last Time

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:56:10 -0500

Full article: Wall Street Journal
The final battle between Comcast and outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin escalated, when the cable giant sought to block the agency's Christmas Eve decision to take back control of a dispute about cable programming.

Judge Sends Comcast-NFL Network Case to Trial

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:29:12 -0500

Full article: Philadelphia Inquirer
Bob Ferndandez
An administrative law judge for the FCC said in a ruling that he would hold a trial on the contentious issue between Comcast and the NFL Network and that a proposed 60-day window to decide the matter proposed by the FCC was unreasonable.

Judge Throws Comcast, NFL Network Mess Back at FCC

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:10:40 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Matthew Lasar
If the FCC thought that it could settle the long battle between Comcast and the NFL Network by handing the question to an FCC administrative judge, it thought wrong. The decider in question is expected to rule that this case is too complex to resolve in the time frame that the agency asked for.

FCC Rebuked in NFL Case

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:48:15 -0500

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Amy Schatz
An administrative judge is set to rebuke the FCC over a case involving the National Football League's complaint that Comcast won't carry its channel on its most popular tier of service.