Comcast, Al Sharpton Beat $20B Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

By Published on August 10, 2015

A California judge has made short order of a $20 billion lawsuit that accused Comcast and Time Warner Cable of racial discriminating through the licensing of cable channels. The legal action fails because the National Association of African-American Owned Media “failed to allege any plausible claim for relief.”

The lawsuit was filed this past February before the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger collapsed. According to the complaint, the two companies “collectively spend approximately $25 billion annually for the licensing of pay-television channels and advertising of their products and services, yet 100% African American–owned media receives less than $3 million per year.”

The legal action, spearheaded in part by Byron Allen‘s Entertainment Studios Networks, gained some notoriety for including as co-defendants Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the National Urban League and the National Action Network for allegedly facilitating discrimination. In 2010, Comcast acquired NBCUniversal and entered into voluntary diversity agreements with these groups. The lawsuit said it was a “sham, undertaken to whitewash Comcast’s discriminatory business practices,” and raised hackles over Sharpton’s salary as host of an MSNBC show.

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