WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Friday a Federal Communications Commission ban that prevents cable companies like Comcast Corp from cutting exclusive deals for affiliated television programing. The prohibition was poised to end in October 2007 unless the FCC acted, but the FCC decided to extend the ban for five more years, expressing concerns that competition and ...

A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia leaves ...

Federal regulators are pledging rigorous reviews of Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of NBC Universal to ensure that it would not stifle competition or harm consumers. Christine Varney, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, offered no indication at a ...

A Delaware man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to his role in a hack that took down Comcast's homepage and email service for several hours in 2008 Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK,” 20, of Newark, Del ...