Nov. 7, 2012
Court rejects cable bundling class action
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a class-action suit against big media companies over the industry practice of marketing bundled cable channels
By Jean Yung
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a class-action suit against big media companies over the industry practice of marketing bundled cable channels, thwarting viewers who want to buy channels a la carte. TV programmers, such as NBC Universal Inc. and Fox Entertainment Group Inc., sell only multichannel packages to pay-TV distributors like Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. In March, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals he...
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