One Year Later – Cablevision’s Wholesale Bundling Suit Against Viacom
By | March 4, 2014
It has been a year since Cablevision filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom over the wholesale bundling of networks. And not much has happened over the past year. The judge recently postponed a pretrial hearing that had been scheduled for Fri (2/28) to May, and there has been no ruling yet on Viacom’s motion to dismiss the case. There was no mention of the matter in the recent CVC earnings call, but upcoming Aereo oral arguments in the Supreme Court were addressed. More on this and a refresher on the lawsuit here.
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