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Actually, Comcast owned neither.
TechTV was owned by a JV of Jones Communications (Comcast *did* acquire a lot of the Jones cable systems, but not the production arm) and ZD (which owned ZDTV outright and spun part of it off to CNET, Inc.) and used to be Jones Computer Network.
A lot of that failure was part of the general meltdown of ZD under SoftBank ownership. (Softbank was a Japanese media conglomerate that attempted to become a *global* media conglomerate, by purchasing everything from ZD to COMDEX.)
Sorry; you can't blame that on Comcast.
(Most of the current Comcast footprint in the Washington, DC cluster is, in fact, ex-Jones Intercable; the exceptions are Montgomery County, MD, Arlington County, VA (both ex-Prime Communications), Washington, DC proper (ATTBI) and Loudon County, VA/Frederick County, MD (Adelphia).) |
