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NFL Net Looks to Feds for Help

By John Ourand & Daniel Kaplan -- Sports Business Journal, 10/29/2007

The NFL Network is looking to federal regulators for help in ending its carriage dispute with the country’s largest cable operators.

As part of a new political lobbying effort, the network wants the Federal Communications Commission to let a third-party arbitrator solve the four-year carriage disputes by determining if and how operators should carry the channel.

Network executives are hoping for a ruling as early as next month.

“We’re just trying to get the dialogue started so people will look at it,” said NFL Network COO Kim Williams. “It is truly almost impossible (to get carriage) if you don’t have the leverage of vertical integration (that Comcast and Time Warner have), which clearly we don’t.”

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