Altitude Sports is taking legal action against Comcast in the latest twist of a months-long contract dispute with the largest television distributor in Colorado.
Altitude announced Monday it has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Comcast for violation of state and federal antitrust laws. Altitude has called for a 1 p.m. Monday news conference to discuss the lawsuit.
The 45-page document alleges that Comcast “wants to extinguish competition from Altitude so that Comcast can pocket more of the money it takes from consumers each month for sports programming.” Altitude also claims that proposals from Comcast during stalled-out negotiations to broadcast Nuggets and Avalanche games “make no economic sense unless Comcast’s aim is to use its monopsony power to eliminate Altitude so that Comcast will control sports programming” in a 10-state region including Colorado.