DC Circuit Overturns FCC Cable Market Share Limit

In Comcast Corp. V. FCC, District of Columbia’s Circuit Court of Appeals scrapped the Federal Communication Commission’s subscriber-share limit for cable providers, handing cable challengers a victory in a 16-year effort to scrap the ownership cap.  The Court held that the FCC had clearly failed to take into account growing competition for video programming from satellite and fiber optics providers when limiting cable providers to the 30 percent subscriber-share limit.  Although the ruling vacates the subscriber-share limit, cable companies remain subject to applicable antitrust laws. 

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