April 24, 2026
If Viamedia Inc. lets people with competitive insight view highly confidential materials as its advertising monopoly trial against Comcast looms, then the cable giant should have the same access because "we can't have different discovery standards between big guys and little guys," an Illinois federal judge said Friday.
April 23, 2026
Viamedia is pushing back on Comcast's proposal for loosening confidentiality protections so the cable giant's in-house litigation counsel can access highly confidential documents as the parties' antitrust trial looms, saying that it agrees a change is necessary but that Comcast's "disingenuous and self-serving" idea is not the way to do it.
April 14, 2026
An Illinois federal judge refused to let Comcast seek immediate Seventh Circuit intervention against an order teeing up Viamedia's antitrust claims accusing it of forcing advertisers to use its internal ads system, concluding that nothing about the contested midcase question of market definition would speed up resolution.
April 10, 2026
Viamedia's antitrust fight against Comcast was set to come to a head after more than a decade later this year, but the judge overseeing the matter in Illinois federal court said the media and tech companies will have to wait a month longer to go to trial.
January 12, 2026
Viamedia Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge to allow a post-discovery witness addition to an upcoming trial against Comcast over competition in the cable ad sales market, saying it discovered the man's relevant knowledge after he joined Viamedia's board.
October 28, 2025
Comcast is seeking permission to appeal an Illinois federal court's refusal to end long-running litigation accusing the cable provider of refusing to work with advertisers that don't use its internal advertising system.
October 21, 2025
An Illinois federal judge has refused to hand Comcast a pretrial win in long-running litigation accusing the company of refusing to work with advertisers that don't use the cable provider's internal advertising system, ruling that the platform at issue is one-sided and that a damages expert dispute is best resolved at trial.
January 10, 2025
Comcast and Viamedia clashed Friday over whether an Illinois federal judge should decide if Comcast's platform connecting spot cable providers to advertisers is a one- or two-sided platform as she determines whether Viamedia's market monopoly claims should go to trial, as the Seventh Circuit once envisioned.
February 23, 2023
Viamedia urged an Illinois federal judge not to nix its antitrust suit accusing Comcast of edging out Viamedia by forcing cable and satellite companies to buy Comcast's spot cable placement services, arguing that the Seventh Circuit expressly teed up the very matters at issue for trial.
January 05, 2022
Viamedia has dropped its closely watched duty-to-deal claim against Comcast to avoid further delays bringing its $160 million antitrust suit to trial, but it suggested in a new court filing that the liability theory could be revived if proceedings don't speed up.