Talkback
by Staff -- Multichannel News, 2/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
Comcast-NBCU Changes Little
To the editor:
The Comcast-NBC Universal merger will not break anything. It is already broken. Currently, large media companies have all the leverage over service providers and have little to no incentive to help service providers control costs. The large providers like Comcast and DirecTV can only hire lawyers and execs to stonewall the media companies into being reasonable. Small providers are at their mercy. New media insurgents are powerless.
My point? It’s easy just to say, “Stop the merger,” but things will still be the way they were — broken. But if enough thought and care go into the conditions applied to the merger, it could establish a positive baseline going forward for broadcasters, cable networks and service providers to develop a balanced ecosystem that keeps prices in check, while promoting competition, localism and diversity.
The small cable companies and other opposing voices aren’t really saying anything about media power that they didn’t say before the merger proposal. People have been saying it for years.
Ken Barringer, Littleton, Colo.
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