Comcast owns NBC Universal, which consists of these among others: NBC network, NBC owned & operated local stations in markets that serve half the US population, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films, Dreamworks, NBC sports regional networks, NBCSN, Golf Channel, Syfy, E!, USA, Bravo, Oxygen, Weather Channel, Telemundo, NBC news, CNBC, MSNBC.
If Comcast isn't screwing over other cable/satellite providers in carriage contracts for the above, why do they think AT&T will do that with Time Warner assets? I personally don't think Comcast should have been allowed to buy them for this reason, but republicans at the time were almost universally against any attempt to block the Comcast purchase of NBC Universal. Now suddenly they are against AT&T's purchase? Strange how none of them said anything until Trump claimed he would block the merger (a president meddling in the justice department for personal reasons is illegal, BTW, not that he or his supporters care)
If the justice department wants to block AT&T's purchase of Time Warner on antitrust grounds, why have they not announced a lawsuit against Comcast to force them to divest NBC Universal? The two situations are almost identical! It would be blatantly unfair to allow the previous merger to stand, but not allow AT&T to buy Time Warner, or similar mergers like say if Dish Network wanted to buy ABC/Disney.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
