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FCC Steps into Comcast-NFL Network Fight

April 12, 2009

The FCC will referee this one.

Comcast Corp. and the NFL Network are taking their program-carriage beef to Washington, where they will butt heads in a courtroom at the Federal Communications Commission.

The outcome of the case, which begins Tuesday, could determine whether Comcast has to carry the NFL Network on its cable system, so millions of Comcast customers would see it without an extra $7 monthly charge.

Click here for the rest of this article in the April 12, 2009, Philadelphia Inquirer.
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