CBS, Fox Profess Apathy Toward NBC-Comcast

By Andrew Gauthier 

The Hollywood Reporter

NBC Universal needn’t worry about a couple of its primary competitors trying to derail its merger with Comcast. It seems that Fox and CBS don’t much care.

“From a macro perspective, I’m certainly not troubled by it,” Chase Carey, News Corp.’s deputy chairman, president and COO, said Wednesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

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“Being that NBC is in fourth place, we sort of don’t like anything to change,” CBS president and CEO Les Moonves joked.

“It will become a very powerful company,” he continued. “There are other people out there that are worried that there may be some trade problems with that. I don’t feel that way.” More…

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