OT: Comcast to acquire NBC

by NWfan on Dec 9, 2009 11:34 AM PST

News release

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04nbc.html

and an opinion discussion

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/should-consumers-fear-the-comcast-deal/

Blazers fans have much angst right now with all the injuires. What better way to vent, than to unload some negativity in Comcast's direction. I think the Blazers fan community may have some strong opinions about Comcast's word that a merger would be pro-consumer. Honestly we should be flogging the FCC regarding this issue an not a NYtimes blog, but awareness of the forthcoming wrongs by this merger needs to be made. Otherwise I would make this a fanhsot and not a fanpost.

The key quote:

Comcast has called the merger, which the Obama administration will have to approve, “pro-competitive, pro-consumer and strongly in the public interest,” and has said it is committed to free over-the-air TV and local programming.

How does this quote make you Blazerfans feel? Let's make our voices heard otherwise the whole nation will be hurt by this merger. Democracy begins by making the public's voice heard. Contact to the FCC can be found from the following link

http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html

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Thanks for posting this

Speaking of comcast, shouldn’t we be hearing about a deal to stream comcast games on the web soon? Wasn’t Larry Miller going to confirm this by Jan 1? Should I be holding my breath?

by Dominator13 on Dec 9, 2009 11:54 AM PST reply actions

asphyxiation ? yes please.

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by faith on Dec 9, 2009 12:08 PM PST up reply actions

they launched their web streaming service with the 76ers game the other night…so perhaps we are getting close?

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by jstbeachy on Dec 9, 2009 12:21 PM PST up reply actions

just another anti-trust violation

NBComcastUniversal is just another monopoly. This merger should be stopped. – Elgin

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by 22baylor on Dec 9, 2009 12:18 PM PST reply actions 11 recs

agree 100%

by mangas on Dec 9, 2009 12:43 PM PST up reply actions

make it green

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by CMCWizard on Dec 9, 2009 2:20 PM PST up reply actions

wait!?! we don't like corperate swine anymore?

pork isn’t green anymore?

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by faith on Dec 9, 2009 9:25 PM PST up reply actions

I believe the Universal stake was sold.

Maybe it was the Vivendi stake.

by robrun2 on Dec 10, 2009 9:21 AM PST up reply actions

Thanks for the heads up NWfan.

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by blzrfan on Dec 9, 2009 2:03 PM PST reply actions

I'd rather Comcast buys FOX instead

won’t happen, though…

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by EngineerScotty on Dec 9, 2009 2:37 PM PST reply actions

What happens with GE?

by CaptainSexyJacob on Dec 9, 2009 2:49 PM PST reply actions

comcast owns 51% ge owns 49%

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by Philthyanimal on Dec 9, 2009 3:11 PM PST up reply actions

Its an evil trick to prevent us Blazer fans from watching on KGW unless you have Comcast!

Let's do it for the big man!...and Rudy!....and Nic!...and, uh, Trout, Pendy, Patty, Mo, Mr. Allen, and Nate!

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by clinchmobb on Dec 9, 2009 2:57 PM PST reply actions

yeah

thats what i was thinking.

comcast buys kgw’s parent company?

their motives are obviously blazer-related

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by thomasikehara on Dec 9, 2009 3:11 PM PST up reply actions

NBC isn't KGW's parent company

KGW is owned by a completely seperate company, Belo, which owns a couple dozen local television stations around the company. KGW is NBC’s Portland affiliate, which is not an ownership relationship, but one more akin to being a contracted “content provider”

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by douglast on Dec 10, 2009 7:23 AM PST up reply actions

As evidenced by many stations over the years changing affiliations

The last one i remember being channel 12 changing to a fox affiliate from an independant

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by 92wastheyear on Dec 10, 2009 9:52 AM PST up reply actions

they were upn before going to fox

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by Philthyanimal on Dec 10, 2009 10:15 AM PST up reply actions

Yeah I realized that after I hit post

They were independent before that

" Welcome to the Bedge....where good, is never good enough"…Rudiculous

by 92wastheyear on Dec 10, 2009 10:29 AM PST up reply actions

But they were always an independant before UPN.

Lots of synidcation and local news is all you got out of KPTV when I was growing up. Still loved it though…

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by bforsythe on Dec 10, 2009 12:33 PM PST up reply actions

So does KGW's Blazer contract independent from their obligations to NBC.

Not that is matters this year but if Comcast owns NBC who trumps who in what we see on TV? Can NBC (Comcast) dictate what the content is on KGW or does KGW dictate the content and allow NBC to show their programming? I know nothing of how this works BTW…

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by clinchmobb on Dec 11, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions