I wonder how long it will be before competing cable and satellite providers drop NBC from their offerings..
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:49 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Breaking News! Comcast Buys NBC Universal! On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > The venture would give Philadelphia-based Comcast control of > entertainment and sports programs, with shows such as "30 Rock," and > broadcast rights to the Olympics. The joint venture would also own > Universal Studios, which has produced films including the "Fast & > Furious" and the "Jason Bourne" franchises. > > Regulators probably will examine whether Comcast might use NBC's > programming to undermine rival pay-TV services such as those of Dish > Network Corp. and Verizon Communicati This just in... Coverage of the Olympics will be shown during a 2 week window sometime during 2010, but might not be on at all and you may have to call Comcast to reschedule. 30 Rock will be moved to a new channel each week and your TiVo's schedule will be updated 4 hours late each time. Also - all tickets to Universal Studios theme parks will be reduced to $5 until you get 10 feet inside the gate where it will cost you $200 to continue. Any customer service complaints to this new policy will be answered by an 8 year old who speaks only Swahili and is just learning to tie their own shoes. However, after any frustrating experience you can Twitter @comcastcares who will finally give you a straight answer, though half the time the answer will suck f ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
