MUMBAI: Alleging that Comcast Cable Communications is violating programme carriage rules by favouring networks it owns and discriminates against unaffiliated services, Tennis Channel has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against the platform.

According to the channel‘s complaint, Comcast isolates Tennis Channel on a premium sports tier received by a small fraction of Comcast subscribers, while it carries Comcast-owned networks that compete with Tennis Channel on basic tiers available to a much wider base of subscribers at no additional charge.
 
Tennis Channel‘s ratings performance is comparable in its service area to that of Comcast‘s sports services, Golf Channel and Versus, according to the complaint.  
 
Said Tennis Channel CEO and chairman Ken Solomon, "We did not want to file this complaint, but Comcast has left us with no choice. We made offers with added incentives for it to move us to a competitive, broadly penetrated service tier, as it has done recently with the MLB, NHL and NBA channels, in which it has financial interests. But Comcast declined to do so."