Call for NBCU-Comcast Conditions Grows Louder
The call for conditions to be placed on the regulatory approval of Comcast’s proposed deal to control 51 percent of NBC Universal is getting louder.
On Tuesday (Dec. 7) Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski proposing a number of conditions.
Waxman also urged that the FCC conclude its review by the end of the year, if possible. The conditions would ensure that competing program distributors have access to Comcast and NBCU programming, prevent Comcast-NBCU from blocking or degrading online content that competes with the combined company, and provide other protections for unaffiliated cable programmers and independent programmers.
“If the merger is approved, it could trigger significant changes in the way consumers access video programming, in the way independent programmers distribute their works, and in the way all video distributors compete for customers,” Waxman wrote.
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