[Husker] DirecTV/Comcast/Versus

[jon johnston]

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2355

Interesting.

Jon Johnston
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On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Gary Fead wrote:

> Good Evening :
>
> First there needs to be a correction to a statement someone else  
> made earlier in this forum. Comcast DOES NOT OWN DirecTV. DirecTV  
> is  owned largely by Ruppert Murdoch (owner of NewsCorp, owner of  
> FOX News Channel, New York Daily News et al), with some minority  
> ownership by Liberty Media. Comcast does owns a few regional sports  
> channels (i.e. CSN Chicago, CSN Philadephia, CSN Bay Area et al).
>
> Currently there is a dispute between DirecTV and Comcast, which I  
> think is nowhere near being resolved so I would not hold my breath  
> about the NU/Baylor game if you are a DTV subscriber. At this point  
> DirecTV has no reason to worry about Versus being off their system  
> and in fact actually will make some additonal money since they are  
> no longer paying Comcast to carry Versus and certainly did not lower  
> their rates because Versus isn't on.
>
> A potential merger to keep your eye on however is this - Comcast  
> entered discussions with General Electric to purchase NBC Universal,  
> doing so would create a large sports monster with the intent to very  
> directly compete with ESPN. Any merger between those two would  
> require approval from the Department of Justice, FCC and probably  
> some Congressional oversight committee and quite honestly I don't  
> see them letting that go through, but then again stranger things  
> have been known to happen.
>
> Gary Fead
> Omaha
>
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