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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTime Warner wins NYC cable news fight. (appeals court blocks New York, New York, plan to air Fox News Channel and Bloomberg Television Network on public access channel)(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, July, 1997 by Petrozzello, Donna
NEW YORK--After months of wrangling, Time Warner Inc. won an appeals court ruling on July 3 that blocks New York City from airing News Corps.' Fox News Channel and Bloomberg LP's Bloomberg Television Network on public access cable channels in the city.
The appeals court decision affirms an injunction issued by a U.S. District Court against New York City last November. That decision found that the city had overstepped its bounds and threatened Time Warner's rights under federal law by trying to force the cable operator to add FNC and Bloomberg to two of five public access channels.
Those channels, Time Warner argued and the court held, are reserved for public, educational or governmental use, not for commercial news services. Installing FNC and...
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