Comcast's greed and evil continues to spread

[chris_in_pdx]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_en_tv/us_comcast_nbc

Comcast Corp. is in negotiations to buy 20 percent to 50 percent of NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

The deal hinges in part on whether French conglomerate Vivendi SA decides to sell its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal. General Electric Co. owns the rest.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Sounds like this could be a good thing for those of us with Comcast.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV provider, could use NBC Universal to broaden the content it distributes.

 

[yakbladder]

Wow..I wonder at what point the FTC steps in. If they control the delivery and the programming of such a major entity both on and off-cable you'd imagine there would be some oversight.

 

[maxiep]

Wow..I wonder at what point the FTC steps in. If they control the delivery and the programming of such a major entity both on and off-cable you'd imagine there would be some oversight.

Federal Trade Commission? Did you mean the Federal Communications Commission?

 

[THE HCP]

I guess I'm glad I switched to the dark side this summer!

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

I tweeted about this, but we were getting media requests from the E! channel a while back and all of their reporters have to use Comcast email addresses. I didn't know that and just assumed they were bullshit so I ignored them. What a bunch of ass-nazis to force their news division to use @comcast.net email addresses the same one that joe blow down the streets use for their emails because they use comcast.

 

[PapaG]

I tweeted about this, but we were getting media requests from the E! channel a while back and all of their reporters have to use Comcast email addresses. I didn't know that and just assumed they were bullshit so I ignored them. What a bunch of ass-nazis to force their news division to use @comcast.net email addresses the same one that joe blow down the streets use for their emails because they use comcast.

Comcast pulled Versus from DirecTV a few weeks ago. Their claim is that DirecTV dropped them, but the story is that Comcast dramatically tried to raise the fee to sublet Versus to DirecTV and DirecTV declined. Now, in the Portland paper, we had two half-page ads (Fr/Sat) last weekend advertising the OSU/Arizona game, and how DirecTV had "dropped" Comcast.

Hardball tactics by Comcast.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

yeah, at my gym where Versus channel is, its a big screen that says that comcast raised the prices for them to run the channel.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

so glad that my comcast internet got changed to time warner...i save about $15 a month since they switched...same wiring.