Tennis Channel v. Comcast: The Continuing Case for Program Carriage Regulation

By Neema Trivedi[1]   If you are a Comcast cable subscriber, you likely receive Comcast’s wholly-owned sports networks, the Golf Channel and Versus (recently re-named NBC Sports Network). This means you can watch golf, hockey, or even bull-riding or cagefighting. Those networks are easy to find on Comcast’s channel lineup — in D.C., for instance, they are channels 11 and 7, just two slots away from ESPN.   But if you are a tennis fan, you need to pay $5 to $8 more to buy Comcastâ