Sky, NBCU to Fight EU Antitrust Charges at Hearing

Reuters: Sky UK, NBCUniversal and five other U.S. studios are expected to try to convince EU antitrust regulators at a hearing next month that their movie-licensing deals are not anti-competitive. The European Commission in July accused the group of blocking consumers outside the UK and Ireland access to films and other content broadcasted by the British TV station. The U.S. studios named in the charge are Disney, NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, Paramount Pictures, part of Viacom, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.