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A federal judge today rejected a bid by Charter Communications to toss out a $10B racial discrimination lawsuit filed by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and the National Association of African-American Owned Media for "racial discrimination in contracting for television channel carriage." The move comes five…

(UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM BYRON ALLEN) EXCLUSIVE: It might not be entirely over, but Comcast can take some relief in the ruling today to dismiss the $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit from the Byron Allen-founded Entertainment Studios Network and the National Association of African-American Owned Media. This…

2ND UPDATE with Comcast response: It took a week, but Comcast has response to the FCC about the Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios calling for a probe of the conglomerate’s minority programming efforts. “This is not the first time (or second, or third) that Petitioners have accused a programming distributor of…

You might feel like you've read this one before – and you have, kind of. Less than a month after Byron Allen got AT&T and DirecTV carriage deals after charging them with racial discrimination in a $10 billion lawsuit, he's got some new targets. Today, both the Federal Communications Commission and Charter…

On, then off and now on again, the massive discrimination lawsuit from the Byron Allen-founded Entertainment Studios Network and the National Association of African-American Owned Media is "ludicrous slander," Comcast says, and should again be dismissed. "Rather than addressing the concerns raised by this Court and…

3RD UPDATE, 7:29 PM: Some lawsuits just won’t go away–  much to Comcast's dismay, we’re sure. A federal judge today reopened the $20 billion racial-discrimination lawsuit against Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Al Sharpton and others that seemed dead only 12 days ago. In his order today (read it here), U.S. District Judge…

Over 6-months after being slapped with a multi-billion dollar racial discrimination lawsuit, the satellite television provider wants out – again. "Plaintiffs attempts to rely on racially offensive conduct by AT&T executives to paint DirecTV with the same brush demonstrate that DirecTV should be severed from this…