Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal

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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Re:When they control......

[commodore64_love]

>>>(or, more importantly, DON'T see and hear).

A friend was just telling me about a little organization called ACORN that was using taxpayer dollars to support prostitutes (or something). It's strange that I never saw that on the Comcast News Network or ComcastNBC. He said he saw it on something called Air America - never even heard of them. By the way, what's "acorn"? (shrug)

Back to topic -

Just as government has introduced the idea of choice for electric providers and phone company providers, they need to do the same with Comcast cable lines. Customers can get a list of individual channels (or packages), and they decide what they desire to see.