FCC Judge Slows NFL Network in Its Dispute with Comcast

An Administrative Law Judge at the Federal Communications Commission made two procedural rulings last month, which may allow Comcast Corp. to keep the NFL Network from automatically broadcasting its programming to the vast majority of Comcast customers, for at least the rest of the NFL season.   The decision of ALJ Arthur I. Steinberg was seen as a blow to FCC chairman Kevin Martin, who has been fighting with Comcast for nearly four years. Expected to be replaced by President-elect Obama in