Media Bureau Denies AMC Standstill Petition on AT&T Carriage

AMC Networks hasn't shown it will be irreparably harmed without a standstill order preserving its current program carriage agreement with AT&T pending resolution of AMC's program carriage complaint against the MVPD, the FCC Media Bureau said in an order in Tuesday's Daily Digest denying the programmer's standstill petition (see 2008100048). AMC emailed it's disappointed, but its carriage complaint remains pending "and we look forward to a favorable resolution at the conclusion of the process. As an independent programmer, we are simply asking AT&T to not use their size and scope to competitively disadvantage our business and our programming, and to treat our networks fairly and in the same manner they treat their own services and networks."