In a july 30 editorial about the FCC's vote to uphold a Tennis Channel program carriage complaint against Comcast, 'B&C' expressed the opinion that Comcast had made a business-case argument for its carriage of Tennis Channel, and that the FCC should avoid inserting itself into marketplace negotiations. In the piece, 'B&C made the following point: "Cable operators are allowed to discriminate among channels. That is called editorial discretion. If they feel their viewers aren't interested in a channel, they don't have to carry it. If they feel that a channel audience serves too small a niche to justify basic carriage, they can group it with other, similarly niche channels and offer it on a tier.
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