Altice’s Cablevision Wins Appeal at FCC Over Game Show Network

Cablevision Systems Corp., now owned by Altice USA Inc., didn’t unfairly treat Game Show Network by moving it to a less-watched channel package in 2010, the Federal Communications Commission ruled, reversing an earlier decision by an agency judge.

Cablevision in November was ordered to pay a maximum forfeiture penalty of $400,000 by FCC Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel. He called it a small portion of what Cablevision has “reaped thus far from its discriminatory conduct.”

Cablevision appealed Sippel’s decision, saying there was no direct evidence of discrimination and it made a “good-faith business judgment” to reduce carriage of an ...