Comcast Looking to Create and Launch New Action-Sports Channels

By filing action sports related trademarks for possible future use, Comcast signals its interest in creating and launching action sports channels. At some point, if the cable giant of distribution begins to expand its owned and operated cable channels and so seemingly precludes unaffiliated entities from realistically entering the same program market, there will be some who will raise possible antitrust (in this case monopsony) issues. Especially troubling if the competition arises from current or anticipated plans from Fox/DirecTV/NewsCorp.