[Husker] DirecTV/Comcast/Versus

[Steve Stone]

Gary 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, I honestly don't know what we far-flung Husker fans would do 
without you. Oh wait, I do know: we'd be missing a lot of important 
TV games.

Steve Stone