According to Wikipedia this is what Comcast already owns and controls after its purchase of NBC from GE. After you read the list, do you think Comcast needs more influence? The Comcast-NBC consolidation expands Comcast both vertically and horizontally within the media market. Vertical integration includes the combination of video producer (NBC) and video distributor (Comcast). Horizontal integration includes adding NBC’s programming, such as Bravo and others to Comcast’s programming, including the Golf channel, E! and others; secondly, adding NBC’s broadcasting station to Comcast’s video network. Mark Leccese summarizes the huge scale of the new company personally: “10 TV and movie production studios (including Universal Pictures), 20 cable channels, 11 regional broadcast TV stations, 15 Telemundo stations, 9 regional sports cable networks, one regional news cable station (New England Cable News), a whole bunch of websites, two pro sports teams in Philadelphia and two arenas, a food service vendor, a ticket agency, and four theme parks. And some other stuff.”[10] Some scholars also summarize and list the significant scale and scope of the new company more completely in their academic journal named The Proposed Comcast-NBCUniversal Combination. This is the integrated-version list. “Through the merger, Comcast-NBC would control media and entertainment properties including:[11] Comcast’s cable systems, which currently serve 24.2 million subscribers, making Comcast the largest multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) in the United States; Comcast’s broadband network, which passes more than 50 million homes and provides high speed Internet service to just under 15 million households, making Comcast the largest residential internet service provider (ISP) in the United States; A number of national cable networks, including NBC’s USA, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, and Syfy networks and Comcast’s E!, Style, Golf Channel, and Versus networks, as well as minority interests in the A&E, Biography, History Channel, Weather Channel, and Lifetime cable networks, and small interests in the Big Ten, NHL, and MLB cable networks; Comcast’s 10 regional cable sports networks; The NBC national broadcast television network, including NBC News (a leading source of global and national news with top-rated news programming), NBC Entertainment, and NBCUniversal Sports (The Olympics, NBC Sunday Night Football, NHL/Stanley Cup, the PGA Tour, the U.S. Open, the Ryder Cup, Wimbledon, and the Kentucky Derby); NBC’s Telemundo national broadcast television network, the second-largest Spanish language programming network in the United States; NBC’s ten owned and operated local broadcast stations, which carry the NBC network programming in large U.S. markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia; NBC’s 16 owned and operated local broadcast stations, which carry the Telemundo network programming in cities with large Spanish-speaking populations, including Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago, and Dallas; NBCUniversals’s large television production operations, which produce broadcast network programming, NBCUniversal Television Distribution’s broadcast program syndication operations, and a 3,000-title library of television episodes; NBCUniversals’s Universal Pictures and Focus Features, which produce theatrical and non-theatrical films, as well as Universal Studio Home Entertainment’s extensive movie library with more than 4,000 titles; Digital media properties, including CNBC, IVillage, NBC, Fandango, and Daily Candy, which together generate more than 40 million unique users each month; NBC’s 30% interest in Hulu, a website that offers free, advertising supported streaming video of broadcast and cable television programs.” 50% stakes in StudioCanal and Canal+ which is the largest pay channel in Europe and holds the third largest film library in the world, along with all distribution rights (outside North America) to the Miramax Films Library
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:57:01 +0000
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