Comcast Dropped Popular Rural TV Network for Al Jazeera America

By: American Decency Staff

Comcast dropped a popular rural television network last year right before launching the unproven Al Jazeera America network, one of several concerns raised by witnesses on Thursday about the company’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable (TWC) and its potential market power.

Patrick Gottsch, founder and chairman of the Rural Media Group, said Comcast dropped the group’s independent channel RFD-TV in August 2013 from all of its cable systems in Colorado and New Mexico, just two days before launching Al Jazeera America. Gottsch testified before the House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law to discuss some of the potential effects of the $45 billion merger.

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