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If you are not a Comcast subscriber and live in the US, beware of exclusive rights negotiated by NBCU through the IOC, (International Olympic Committee) for Olympic coverage. You may be out of luck seeking broadband Olympic access. If not a Comcast customer, you’re left out of feeds associated … [Read more...]
NBC Olympic coverage has been a superb broadcast dissecting the important events it believes viewers are most interested in, if not for those annoying ads. As the network filled primetime with the best of what 2012 London Olympics had to offer, executives understood quite well the tendency of most … [Read more...]
Comcast’s Xfinity TV Brings Customers NBCUniversal’s Coverage of 2012 London Summer Olympic Games July 25 – August 12 Video Subscribers Gain Access to Unprecedented Live Coverage on Multiple Platforms – All 32 Sports and 302 Medal Events PHILADELPHIA, PA - July 23, … [Read more...]
The ongoing battle between Bloomberg and Comcast was taken to the next level, or round two, as an official complaint was filed by Bloomberg with the FCC on June 13, 2011. Claiming inexplicably that Comcast should position Bloomberg TV along with like news organizations CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, … [Read more...]
Now that the merger between Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and NBCU has been finalized and Comcast works to improve NBCU’s bottom-line; Bloomberg has “fired its cannon across the bow” of Comcast to test stipulations put into the deal that would neighborhood news channels into bundles. While clumping … [Read more...]
Olbermann-MSNBC Part Company Keith Olbermann can now sit in quiet reflection on his tenure with MSNBC (NYSE: GE) Let’s face it; he reportedly can afford that luxury along with maybe a sabbatical and some soul searching thrown in for good measure. More likely than not, he could emerge with a … [Read more...]
Fear is always the driving force in forecasting dire consequences a large merger could have on competition within the marketplace. This is no different with the proposed coupling of Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSK, CMCSA) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). Each company brings its own set of complimentary … [Read more...]
Since announcement of the Comcast/NBC-Universal merger consummated the deal creating subsequent analysis and conjecture about how the new venture will be structured, with its impact on programming distribution and fears of dominance, and anti-trust issues within the marketplace; Comcast is set to … [Read more...]
It happened, as predicted by some and discounted by others; a Comcast-NBC Universal merger that has wide-ranging implications on both future Content and Internet usage. However, the tough part for Comcast begins now, today, and that is to placate dissenters like the Consumer Federation of America, … [Read more...]
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