FCC Seeks Expedited Briefing Schedule for Confidential Documents Petition for Review
The FCC asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for an expedited briefing schedule for content companies’ petition for review of the commission’s order releasing confidential programming documents connected with the proposed mergers of AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/Time…
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Warner Cable. An emergency stay in the case has put the FCC’s shot clocks for completing merger reviews on hold. The petitioners in the case, which include CBS, Disney and Viacom, have consented to the proposed schedule, the FCC said. Under the FCC’s proposed schedule, the final briefs in the case would be filed Jan. 13, with the court likely issuing an opinion some weeks later. Since the programmers’ case sought to block access only to the video programming confidential information, the commission will allow access during the stay to highly confidential information that doesn’t contain VPCI, the motion said.