Bloomberg: Comcast is cheating

Bloomberg LP is accusing Comcast of violating a key condition imposed by regulators to win approval of the cable giant’s NBC Universal purchase.

Specifically, Comcast is refusing to place Bloomberg TV in the same “neighborhood” of channel numbers as other news networks, making it harder for TV surfers to find it and potentially depressing viewership, Bloomberg alleges. In the letter to Comcast and copied to the Federal Communications Commission, Bloomberg tells the cable company it must quickly make arrangements to put the channel in a grouping of similar offerings — or face a formal complaint at the commission. “This refusal to place BTV in news neighborhoods places Comcast in direct violation of the FCC order approving the Comcast-NBCU merger,” Bloomberg attorneys write.