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#1  Edited By Willy105

Comcast + GE + NBC Universal
 
The BIGGEST media company ever.
 
Thoughts on this? And how would this affect NBC?

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#2  Edited By Red12b
@Willy105:  
Can I have a link,  
 
Lazy :)
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#3  Edited By Willy105
@Red12b said:
" @Willy105:  Can I have a link,   Lazy :) "
It's on NBC right now.
 
For some reason I can't post links, Giantbomb doesn't recognize the URL's I put in.
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#4  Edited By KaosAngel

...fuck.  I hate Comcast, but love NBC...what do I do now?

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#5  Edited By skrutop
@KaosAngel said:
" ...fuck.  I hate Comcast, but love NBC...what do I do now? "
..Keep watching NBC?
 
I don't know if we'll see a really dramatic change in NBC, but I would expect Comcast to eventually start locking down their content a bit more so that they can charge for it.  The most obvious place will be on Hulu, where I'd expect them to charge for content.  However, NBC said that they were planning on charging for stuff on Hulu eventually anyway.  My only hope is that Comcast doesn't remove NBC's content from Netflix streaming.
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#6  Edited By MysteriousBob

A company I've never heard off bought out a different company I've never heard of as well as a another company I've never heard of? 
 
My world has been shaken.

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#7  Edited By KaosAngel
@MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal.
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#8  Edited By Tiwi
@MysteriousBob: where the fuck do you live?
I live in Norway an i know about them, and Norway is fucking obscure.
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#9  Edited By foggel

I wonder if this will affect 30 rock in any way.

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#10  Edited By stonyman65

NBC and comcast suck.
 
Thats it - The end is near
 
Time to stock up on ammo and canned food.......

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#11  Edited By KaosAngel
@foggel said:
" I wonder if this will affect 30 rock in any way. "
If the Office and 30 Rock get off Netflix, so does my Netflix account.  I just rewatched all of 30 Rock to test out the PS3 Netflix and all that crap is in HD.  
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#12  Edited By ArchScabby

The future of corporations ruling everything is upon us!!!
 
Damn, I was rooting for zombies.

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#13  Edited By JJWeatherman

What's up next? Will Microsoft really buy out EA?

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#14  Edited By deactivated-5a1a3d3c6820c
@ArchScabby said:
" The future of corporations ruling everything is upon us!!!  Damn, I was rooting for zombies. "
Whether you were taking the piss with your post or not.. I'm starting to become more and more convinced that is the way it will be.
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#15  Edited By MysteriousBob
@KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  
a) I don't watch TV. 
b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours.
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#16  Edited By ninjakiller
@Willy105 said:
" Comcast + GE + NBC Universal  The BIGGEST media company ever.  Thoughts on this? And how would this affect NBC? "
Sigh.  Fuck I hate corporate America.  Oh and Reagan, fuck Reagan.  He nuetured the fed's ability to break up these stupid uber companies. 
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#17  Edited By KaosAngel
@MysteriousBob said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  a) I don't watch TV. b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours. "
House, The Office, 30 Rock, and Steven Colbert.   
 
Those shows are vasty greater than anything outside USA can produce.  
 
/thread
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#18  Edited By ninjakiller
@MysteriousBob said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  a) I don't watch TV. b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours. "
Obviously, and your countries movies are obviously vastly superior to Hollywood's as well.  Wait.........I've never heard of movies from whogivesafuckingshitastan before. 
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#19  Edited By essaregee

I think I will just keep on watching my russian television and anime. *yawn* 
And for a second there I thought that you said that Universal studios was sold to Comcast *phew*
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#20  Edited By felixlighter
@essaregee:  It was.
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#22  Edited By ninjakiller
@essaregee said:

" I think I will just keep on watching my russian television and anime. *yawn* And for a second there I thought that you said that Universal studios was sold to Comcast *phew* "

 
 
 NBC Universal: NBC network, 10 NBC stations, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando Resort (50 percent), Hulu (more than 25 percent), Telemundo network, 16 Telemundo stations, iVillage.
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#23  Edited By ninjakiller
@essaregee said:
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OMG NO!!!!! 
 
TypeSubsidiary of NBC Universal
FoundedLos Angeles, California, U.S.
(June 8, 1912)
HeadquartersUniversal City, California, U.S.
Key peopleCarl Laemmle, Founder
Ronald Meyer, President / Chief Operating Officer
IndustryFilmmaking
Owner(s)General Electric (80%)
Vivendi (20%)
ParentNBC Universal
Websitewww.universalstudios.com

 

Does that mean Comcast now owns GE?!!! Shit! Now our fridges and microwaves are going to have bandwidth restrictions *cries and runs away*

"
No GE sold it.
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#24  Edited By essaregee
@ninjakiller: 
[ hide]
v  • d  • e
Television in Russia
State-Run
Private
Channel 5 • CTC Media (STS, Domashny, DTV) • TV-3 • REN TV • MTV Russia • Muz TV • 7TV • 2×2 • RBC TV •
Satellite
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TV-6 • TVS

    
Eurosport FTW, as well as Channel One, STS, RBC TV.
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#25  Edited By felixlighter
@essaregee: Nah, they just bought a controlling stake of NBC Universal from GE, so your fridge and microwave are safe.
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#26  Edited By KaosAngel
@FelixLighter said:
" @essaregee: Nah, they just bought a controlling stake of NBC Universal from GE, so your fridge and microwave are safe. "
Hah, nice 30 Rock reference. 
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#27  Edited By essaregee
@FelixLighter:
That was a close call. 
Next step is for them to assimilate AT&T, Fido, Sprint, and bam!, bust like that, complete global domination (oooh, and Paramount Pictures too, and MSNBC, and then EA games, and Microsoft). 
 
Remember, the person with the biggest stick wins.
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#28  Edited By penguindust

It means more NBC programs on G4TV.  Currently they air "Heroes" a day or two later than NBC does.  I bet there will be more shows like that showing up on Comcast owned networks. Comcast owns G4 in case you didn't know.  Comcast also owns E! Entertainment Television.  That channel also aired episodes of NBC's "Community"sitcom featuring Joel McHale, star of E!'s "The Soup". 
 
I read online that the reason for this merger is Comcast wants to build a stronger competitor for Disney's ESPN networks.  There's real money to be made in sports programming as FOX discovered when it acquired NFL football.   Comcast already owns a few regional focused sports networks as well as the Golf Channel and VS Channel which carries NHL games.

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#29  Edited By super_machine

My cable bill better go down. Those mother fuckers keep raising rates, yet my service stays the same.

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#30  Edited By JokerClown88
@skrutop said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" ...fuck.  I hate Comcast, but love NBC...what do I do now? "
..Keep watching NBC?  I don't know if we'll see a really dramatic change in NBC, but I would expect Comcast to eventually start locking down their content a bit more so that they can charge for it.  The most obvious place will be on Hulu, where I'd expect them to charge for content.  However, NBC said that they were planning on charging for stuff on Hulu eventually anyway.  My only hope is that Comcast doesn't remove NBC's content from Netflix streaming. "
 
I hope that they dont too.  Its where I get my Heros fix should I miss it on Monday.  If I loose that, then there will be Hell to pay.  HELL I TELL YOU!!!
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#31  Edited By cspiffo

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#32  Edited By ch13696

So does this mean we won't see it on Time Warner or Charter cable?

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#33  Edited By felixlighter
@super_machine:  Oh it definitely will not.  Besides, they just spent $30 billion on this merger.  I despise Comcast.  They used to be my cable provider but when they started removing channels from my package and charging separately for them, they pushed me to Directv.  I can't imagine anything good coming of this.  At least antitrust regulators will probably prevent them from doing anything ridiculous, like blocking NBC Universal content on Directv but who knows about Netflix and Hulu.
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#34  Edited By Tireyo

Good thing I got Direct TV, I don't like Comcast.

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#35  Edited By TheHBK
@MysteriousBob said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  a) I don't watch TV. b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours. "
LOL.  Everyone knows american TV fucking rules.  Besides, how the fuck would you know?  You dont watch TV right?  Oh man, your just some american hating punk.  Why are you on an american site?  Everyone is welcome here except haters like you.  Just leave.  Rookie.
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#36  Edited By TheKidNixon
@ch13696 said:
" So does this mean we won't see it on Time Warner or Charter cable? "
Negative, unless/until Comcast requires more payment for their programming from the "other" cable companies and Time Warner/Charter/whoever else is still playing that game really buckles down and refuses. Basically, Comcast this just locked themselves into more bargaining power; in this regard, the real effect of all this is that everyone's cable/digital TV bill went up, except for Comcast. Of course, congress will make a passing gesture to make all kinds of promises that this won't happen, only for it to go on anyway. But that programming arm and the cable-company arm are fairly seperate from each other.
 
To make clear what EXACTLY is happening here: GE is buying back the remaining 20% that Vivendi owned and then selling it over to Comcast, who will own a controlling interest (read: 51%) of the company. Of course the hilarious part is that NBC Universal is borrowing the money, which it will then more or less "gift" to GE, so that GE can buy out the Vivendi arm of NBC Universal, getting them out of the picture. Then Comcast pays GE for the majority share of stock in NBC Universal. That 49% that GE will still owns can apparently be unloaded in 3 years if the whole thing is still a financial boondoggle for them. You can read more here if you really care.
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#37  Edited By ryanwho
@KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  a) I don't watch TV. b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours. "
House, The Office, 30 Rock, and Steven Colbert.    Those shows are vasty greater than anything outside USA can produce.   /thread "
But if he never watches them, he can keep telling himself that Spaced ripoff number 7 is vastly superior to anything on NBC. That's how echochambers work.
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#38  Edited By deusdigit
@Willy105 said:
" Comcast + GE + NBC Universal  The BIGGEST media company ever.  Thoughts on this? And how would this affect NBC? "
Well its a good thing i don't watch television anymore. To be honest, Comcast's G4TV was the only thing i watched before they decided to ruin it and Get rid of virtually every program consisting of gaming on there. Just gives me another reason to stay away from TV knowing that NBC belongs to comcast.
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#39  Edited By TheKidNixon
@deusdigit said:
" Well its a good thing i don't watch television anymore. To be honest, Comcast's G4TV was the only thing i watched before they decided to ruin it and Get rid of virtually every program consisting of gaming on there. Just gives me another reason to stay away from TV knowing that NBC belongs to comcast. "
Not to play Devil's advocate (I'm as against big media mergers as anyone else, hurts competition,) but I actually think one of the few upsides to this for us is that the programming on Comcast's stations might actually improve. Quite frankly, they're programming is pretty horrendous save for maybe ten minutes on E! every day. But NBC does have some very highly regarded programming wings, with the namesake network, USA, SyFy, Bravo and I'm sure some other outlying stations that I can't think of right now (Is A&E them as well? I like A&E.) It would be in Comcast's best interest to, instead of dragging those valuable properties down, bring their other stations up to the same quality. Worst case scenario, it would meet up somewhere in the middle. Which, for networks like G4, would be a huge fucking improvement.
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#40  Edited By iam3green

dang that sucks. comcast is kind of like EA for the cable industry. this is going to be weird to see. i can see hulu changing a lot and cable channels  changing.

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#41  Edited By nexas
@MysteriousBob said:
" @KaosAngel said:
" @MysteriousBob: That's such BS, everyone knows what NBC is.  It's a big deal. "
I have no idea what NBC is because  a) I don't watch TV. b) I'm not a fucking American. Our TV system is different and vastly superior to yours. "
How do you know if your TV is superior if you don't watch it.
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#42  Edited By zombie2011
@MysteriousBob said:
" A company I've never heard off bought out a different company I've never heard of as well as a another company I've never heard of?  My world has been shaken. "
How have you not heard of NBC Universal or GE.
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#43  Edited By jakob187

Well...this is interesting.

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#44  Edited By Willy105
@Tireyo643 said:
" Good thing I got Direct TV, I don't like Comcast. "
No matter what cable/satellite provider you have, NBC is still owned by Comcast now.
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#45  Edited By Willy105
@MysteriousBob said:
" A company I've never heard off bought out a different company I've never heard of as well as a another company I've never heard of?  My world has been shaken. "
Where do you live? The moon?
 
NBC is the oldest American TV network ever. It's so old, it was doing radio.
 
Universal is also a huge movie publisher.
 
No matter where in the world you live, you know something that came from NBC and Universal.
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#46  Edited By Tireyo
@Willy105: I don't care that much about NBC. : - P
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#47  Edited By RJMacReady

Has anybody considered the ratings played a roll in this? If you truely support NBC why didn't you buy from their sponsors and make the company profitable.

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#48  Edited By Karmum
Wow.  Didn't even know they we're in talks. They now own 51 percent of NBC? Listen Comcast, I already have you as my television provider, don't move any of the shows on USA Network at all. Except wrestling, don't care about that.
 
Let me continue to have the awesome USA Network shows and we're cool. Oh, and try and move Royal Pains up to an earlier 2010 season two date.
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#49  Edited By RetroIce4
Well damn. This isn't any good... 
@JJWeatherman said:
" What's up next? Will Microsoft really buy out EA? "

EA's quality games did go downhill for a while.
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#50  Edited By Willy105
@RJMacReady said:
" Has anybody considered the ratings played a roll in this? If you truely support NBC why didn't you buy from their sponsors and make the company profitable. "
I never really understood why NBC has started to get so low ratings compared to the other networks, especially after I started to watch NBC more than the rest.
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