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Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-end-badly dept.

schwit1 sent us an LA Times article about another step in the seemingly unending media consolidation. This time it's Cable giant Comcast Corp. looking at NBC. NBC owns a slew of channels, including Bravo, USA and Syfy (who might have the single lamest rebranding since Spike). The article says that it would be far cheaper than the Disney deal Comcast tried to pull off 5 years ago.

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  1. Re:Lamest rebranding by Scyber · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the other hand, Sci-Fi's decision to call themselves "Syfy" is simply a lame attempt to justify having professional wrestling in their lineup.

    It was my understanding that the primary issue is that they couldn't trademark Sci-Fi b/c it was a generic term.