ackman
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Acworth, GA | What? And these SOBs think they can buy NBC? They can't even keep their own staff. Come on, US Justice Dept, FCC, block this attempt by a media carrier to merge with a content provider. That's a line that should never be crossed. |
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| said by ackman:And these SOBs think they can buy NBC? They can't even keep their own staff. It is called reorganization. Or, in other words, cutting dead wood. A company has to prune departments that are overloaded with useless staff due to change in mission. Comcast is not shrinking in size, so your statement is not relevant to the plan to acquire a new subsidiary.
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said by ackman: Come on, US Justice Dept, FCC, block this attempt by a media carrier to merge with a content provider. That's a line that should never be crossed. That line was crossed years ago with Viacom, so good luck with that one.
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| Viacom was formed when CBS was required to divest it's content production and syndication arm. You got that backwards.
When the FCC prohibition on networks owning the programs they broadcast was removed, Viacom essentially bought it's parent, CBS.
Of course, Redstone's National Amusements controlled both so it was all just a paper shuffle anyway.
This Comcast-NBCU deal is not the same thing. In 1970, CBS controlled it's TV network and single TV stations in seven markets. Comcast controls the biggest slice of a cable market which provides transport to over 80% of all channels watched. Comcast could easily start hacking away at competitors by denying carriage, which, while technically illegal, could also easily put them out of business while the lawsuits wanders through the legal system.
This is precisely the kind of media consolidation we should be avoiding. But you'll never get the pro-business-at-all-costs cable fanbase here to admit it. Maybe once the damage is done a movement toward separating the content from the delivery will restart, much for the same reasons Viacom was separated from CBS in 1971. |
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The advanced dispatch department was not useless staff. They were the Techs saviours whenever we had issues getting internet and phone up and going as well as fixing issues with static ips. Now they expect us to deal with an outsourced company with a month of "training". Their last day is the 13th soo get prepared for even more suck. |
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ackman
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Acworth, GA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Nice try. Time to start enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act for the first time in at least 30 years. Should Americans serve corporations, or should corporations serve the American people? Take away personhood status of corporations, give them a limited lifespan, heavily regulate them. Had that been followed, the economic crisis, and Bush's payout of 800 billion dollars via TARP, would not have happened. Where were the teabaggers when Bush held the gun to America's head a year ago? |
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If they really want to get rid of the dead wood in the company they should start at the top. Brian Roberts needs to go. This guy couldn't run a hot dog stand unless his daddy started it for him and made him CEO. Oh yea! That's exactly how he got the top job at Comcast.
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| said by TheUWord :
If they really want to get rid of the dead wood in the company they should start at the top. Brian Roberts needs to go. This guy couldn't run a hot dog stand unless his daddy started it for him and made him CEO. Oh yea! That's exactly how he got the top job at Comcast.
Technicians in Comcast need a UNION!
You should have accomplishments 1/100th as much as him and you could claim yourself a success.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_L._Roberts
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Ok forget Viacom. How about the fact that Comcast already owns E!, G4, Versus, Golf Channel, Style Network, Comcast Sportsnet, Sprout and a few others. Owning content is nothing new and other carriers haven't been blocked from those assets. Comcast doesn't provide service every where and isn't going to lose out on the revenue from their competitors just to block out those networks. |
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