I assume the merger of two mega-corporations that I hate will crreate a mega-mega corporation that I hate even more. Comcast and NBC will now be one super-huge company, and for the first time a cable company (and internet provider) will own one of the major broadcast networks. How this is supposed to benefit the consumer is a major mystery to me. Supposedly, the FCC has imposed conditions that will prevent a repeat of the travesty that happened in New York this fall.
Millions of football fans in the New York area could not access the New York Giants’ game on Sunday because of a carriage dispute between Fox and Cablevision.
The Giants’ home contest against the Detroit Lions was a casualty of the right fee dispute that led to Fox programming being yanked from about 3 million homes in the New York metro area.
Will NBC programming be denied to other providers and competitors of Comcast? Will we see any cost savings to consumers? I don’t care for this merger. I want to see more choice and more competition and smaller media outlets. This moves us in the wrong direction.
