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Comcast spinning NBCUniversal

luperm said:
In certain cases (example Edison, NJ) Comcast is actually overbuilding another ISP's territory (Optimum) with a 100% fiber to the home network. Comcast's native territory ends one town over in Woodbridge, so this is an "edge out" for them. They are doing similar builds elsewhere where it makes economic sense.
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Exactly what they're doing here, north of Houston... all of Houston proper was their existing footprint, but they did a massive edge-out here in Montgomery County. Unfortunately for them, other companies beat them to the fiber push, but I know some folks are still switching.

Don CT said:
What are the limitations of DOCSIS. Can it ever provide symmetric speeds or will upload always be bottlenecked.
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DOCSIS 4.0 and high-split DOCSIS 3.1 can both do symmetric speeds. Comcast is doing DOCSIS 4.0, while Charter is doing high-split.
 
I know GE once owned NBC. Sorry to be so lazy but does anyone know a proper list of the owners of NBC through the years going back to it's founding in radio?

Thanks
 
Don CT said:
Radio Corporation of America.
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Yep, that's the only entry for the first 60 years of its existence (founded in 1926). GE acquired it in 1986, sold part of it to Vivendi in 2004 (creating NBCUniversal). Comcast acquired controlling interest in 2011.

Not exactly the long list that @Markxxx expected, I bet.
 
Markxxx said:
I know GE once owned NBC. Sorry to be so lazy but does anyone know a proper list of the owners of NBC through the years going back to it's founding in radio?

Thanks
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It's not that long a list, and no one---joking or otherwise---should suggest Wikipedia as source material, much less A.I.

Founded in 1926 by RCA (Radio Corporation of America).

GE (General Electric) bought RCA outright


That's how far along I was when K.M.'s post appeared.

I'll just add for clarity that GE bought RCA outright, not just NBC (and then sold the rest of RCA) and that Vivendi had bought Universal (from Seagram's) only four years prior to acquiring NBC.
 
Markxxx said:
I know GE once owned NBC. Sorry to be so lazy but does anyone know a proper list of the owners of NBC through the years going back to it's founding in radio?

Thanks
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RCA from inception to 1986. GE from 1986 (RCA Acquisition) until acquired by Vivendi Universal and that was then sold to Comcast.
 
So the wiki says they GE originally founded RCA with AT&T.
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was a major American electronicscompany in existence from 1919 to 1987. Initially, RCA was a patent trust owned by a partnership of General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company. It became an independent company in 1932 after the partners agreed to divest their ownerships in settling an antitrust lawsuit by the United States.
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I cringe every time a post starts with "the wiki says" or "according to Wikipedia".

The quoted text is simplistic and does not contribute to the answer of "who owned NBC". Yes, the original RCA was a four-way patent trust, and WEAF began life under that trust. But it was after the antitrust action, when RCA became an independent company, that NBC came to life.

Here's significantly more detail than "the wiki":

WEAF Tour, 1927

A Tour of radio station WEAF New York City in 1927
www.theradiohistorian.org
 
umfan said:
No.
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Yes.

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Comcast spinning NBCUniversal

In certain cases (example Edison, NJ) Comcast is actually overbuilding another ISP's territory (Optimum) with a 100% fiber to the home network. Comcast's native territory ends one town over in Woodbridge, so this is an "edge out" for them. They are doing similar builds elsewhere where it makes...
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luperm said:
In certain cases (example Edison, NJ) Comcast is actually overbuilding another ISP's territory (Optimum) with a 100% fiber to the home network. Comcast's native territory ends one town over in Woodbridge, so this is an "edge out" for them. They are doing similar builds elsewhere where it makes economic sense.
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That's great, but if I were one of their legacy customers, I'd sure be pissed if the new guy in the next town over had newer/faster/better facilities than my town did, while I was stuck with their obsolete old crap.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Yes.

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Comcast spinning NBCUniversal

In certain cases (example Edison, NJ) Comcast is actually overbuilding another ISP's territory (Optimum) with a 100% fiber to the home network. Comcast's native territory ends one town over in Woodbridge, so this is an "edge out" for them. They are doing similar builds elsewhere where it makes...
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Never complain about free help. Besides, nobody mentioned NBC was co-owned at the start by RCA, GE and Westighouse. The trio's owned-and-operated stations formed the foundation for NBC Red.
 
tvnut said:
NBC was co-owned at the start by RCA, GE and Westighouse. The trio's owned-and-operated stations formed the foundation for NBC Red.
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The fourth partner in NBC was AT&T, which at the time owned WEAF in NYC. It later became WNBC. The antenna for the station was on the top of the AT&T building. The company also provided the long lines that created the network. After that, AT&T never again owned a radio station.
 
tvnut said:
Never complain about free help. Besides, nobody mentioned NBC was co-owned at the start by RCA, GE and Westighouse. The trio's owned-and-operated stations formed the foundation for NBC Red.
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NBC's first official broadcast was on November 15, 1926. There are some who have opined that it was that action, along with the creation of RCA Victor (RCA, GE and Westinghouse had beenpartners in the Victor Talking Machine Company previously) in 1929 that prompted the Justice Department to file the anti-trust suit one year later.

In any event, @umfan didn't add that information; in fact, his post added virtually nothing to my post which preceded his.
 


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