After years of grumbling about the wholesale bundling of networks, an MVPD did something about it Tues and the floodgates opened. Cablevision filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom, claiming it illegally forces it to carry and pay for lesser-watched nets that its customers don’t want in order to carry “must-have” channels. Hours after Cablevision announced the action, several MVPDs and independent programmers piled on with statements challenging the practice. Read on for an analysis of the Cablevision case and statements from each side.

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Distributors sympathetic with Cablevision had plenty to say about the lawsuit against Viacom Tues. Charter, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable weigh in.
 
Higher capital expenditures and programming costs are likely this year at Comcast NBCUniversal, CFO Michael Angelakis said during Morgan Stanley’s investor conference Tues. More on the company’s financials here.
 
About a month after hearing oral arguments, a 3-judge panel unanimously upheld the FCC’s ’11 pole attachment order. Find out who stands to gain the most from it.

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