GE selling NBC Universal to Comcast
 

GE, Comcast Deal Over NBC Universal Is Complete: Source - Mergers and Aquisitions * US * News * Story - CNBC.com

I don't like Comcast owning multiple channels that I currently get on DirecTV (for now).

I agree. I don't think it is good for consumers to have the distributors also control the content. I no longer get Versus as a result of a spat between Comcast and DirecTV. In the long run, I suspect I am going to choose to either subscribe to both or accept not having access to a bunch of content that I currently enjoy.

Although consumes may end up with less content than they enjoy today, I don't think there are big antitrust concerns (yet).

I want to see "30 Rock" address this :D.

I'm not surprised. I'd heard rumors about this for months. It's probably good overall for me as a Comcast subscriber (don't get me started...), good for GE and its shareholders, but bad for everyone else.

I have to agree that having the cable and sattelite companies owners the networks themselves is a terrible terrible direction to go and creates all sorts of anti-trust issues in the long term.

Hell, why long term? The first time Comcast tried to use Versus and the NHL contract to leverage their monopoly (in many markets) in cable to pay more for Versus, they should have been slapped with the anti-trust stick. But no one wants to use it at all.

SI

Well, I'm sure its because a lot of providers think dominoes could fall. DirectTV won't want to do it because it doesn't want something like "Sunday Ticket" to be called anti-trust, etc.

And I wish that everything that was crazy anti-competitive would be ruled against in anti-trust but it will never happen.

SI