Comcast-NBC will face tough antitrust review

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Comcast Corp. will likely have to accept substantial conditions if the cable TV provider wants to win regulatory approval for control of NBC Universal's broadcast network, cable channels and movie studios.

Although federal regulators probably won't block a deal outright on anticompetitive grounds, they could prohibit Comcast, for instance, from denying rival subscription-TV services such as DirecTV access to NBC channels and other popular programming.

Under a deal announced Thursday, Comcast would control a 51 percent stake in the Peacock network and about two dozen cable channels such as Bravo, CNBC and SyFy along with the cable lines to roughly a quarter of all U.S. households that pay for TV.

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they`ll get the deal done and the consumers in this country will be fucked over again.

:evilgrin:

with Gramm-Leach-Bliley, along with the perpetual war clause.

I'd love to see them rip through CNBC and make them more like Bloomberg, where they don't focus on Politics all day and actually provide 'business' news, but I wonder if that would instead make MSNBC or NBC go more conservative? Most likely nothing, but you never know. I don't know much about the Comcast brass.

In a lot of areas of the country including my area of Pittsburgh they moved MSNBC last year in the summer to the top tier which meant you had to have a cable box. They of course left Faux and CNN on basic cable. In MSNBC's place in my area we got the damn Golf Channel which I understand Comcast has a financial interest in.

So I'm hoping if they get NBC they will move MSNBC back to basic cable and that they won't mess with the evening hosts at least.

This merger should not be allowed period. More consolidation and more attacking of the public good. Just goes to show that little is changing.

not the current joke of an FCC.

Say your good-byes to Keith and Rachel