Comcast is facing an antitrust lawsuit from a Denver regional sports network, which claims that the cable giant is using its market power to try to extract much more favorable terms that would put it out of business.
Altitude Sports and Entertainment, which produces and telecasts games from the the Colorado Avalanche hockey team and Denver Nuggets basketball team and other local sports, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver. Comcast calls the lawsuit “meritless.”
The Altitude sports programming has been unavailable on Comcast’s platform since Aug. 31, leaving a big chunk of viewership without access to games. Over the weekend, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis urged a resolution, tweeting, “Bring our teams back to our screens!”
Altitude claims that Comcast, with a 57% market share among multichannel distributors, was demanding “unjustifiably and unreasonably low fees” and that it “refuses to pay us anything close to fair market fees,...
Altitude Sports and Entertainment, which produces and telecasts games from the the Colorado Avalanche hockey team and Denver Nuggets basketball team and other local sports, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver. Comcast calls the lawsuit “meritless.”
The Altitude sports programming has been unavailable on Comcast’s platform since Aug. 31, leaving a big chunk of viewership without access to games. Over the weekend, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis urged a resolution, tweeting, “Bring our teams back to our screens!”
Altitude claims that Comcast, with a 57% market share among multichannel distributors, was demanding “unjustifiably and unreasonably low fees” and that it “refuses to pay us anything close to fair market fees,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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