It's Official

It's Official, this morning it was announced that Comcast is seeking controlling interest of NBC Universal. General Electric has agreed to sell its 51% controlling interest to Comcast.

Epix & Dish in talks

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BREAKING NEWS!



G.E. has agreed to sell 51% controlling interest to Comcast.

Did I just hear its time for the cable pig to ask for a rate increase?

This isn't good in my opinion. Comcast holds tight on the reins of everything they own.

This will never pass muster through Congress. If anything, I'd expect D* to fight this tooth and nail. Comcast has given them a perfect example of why this is not a good deal for customers (the Versus mess.) I would hope this would do the opposite of what some may think...actually force Comcast to do the right thing and just extend the Versus contract with D* under the existing terms.

Regardless of any existing cable channel disputes, I would hope that the anti-trust people would force NBC-Comcast to divest themselves of all company owned affiliates. Owning a network is one thing....complete control of the delivery method for all network programming is another.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you.

But now if we are in bizarro-world, that could pass...

Anti-trust? That might not exist anymore...

You are talking about the old-congress.

The new-congress would let this happen....

Did I just hear its time for the cable pig to ask for a rate increase?

They raised my high-speed Internet rate by $4/month 2 months ago, so yeah, I imagine cable rates will go up too post-purchase.


Ordinarily, I'd agree with you.

But now if we are in bizarro-world, that could pass...

Anti-trust? That might not exist anymore...

You are talking about the old-congress.

The new-congress would let this happen....

I'm thinking you're right... :(

Epix & Dish in talks

For More Please CLICK HERE press that click here and nothing comes up to read it is it a bad link or did nothing come up or something.it didnt come up for me got nothing.i was going to read it .thank you for all you do on this site love it come here everyday more than once to check everything out:)Did anyone get anything when they punched up the link for dish and epix in talks?i didnt get anything

It took me HERE (http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/183776-epix-dish-talks-4.html) where I got plopped onto page four of a nineteen page Epix & Dish thread that has been going on since August.

Somehow, I would expect to see page one or the last page...