Comcast settled a long-running racial discrimination dispute with black media mogul Byron Allen, agreeing to add three of Allen’s channels to its cable packages.
Allen sued Comcast for $20 billion in 2015 for refusing to carry seven of his networks, saying it was because of his race. Comcast said it declined to carry the channels because the programming wasn’t original or of sufficient quality.
Allen also sued Charter, another cable company, for $10 billion for refusing to carry his networks. The case made it to the Supreme Court, which in March reversed a lower court ruling in favor of Allen.
The Supreme Court said Allen had to show race was the decisive factor in Comcast’s decision not to offer him a contract, not one of several factors.
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