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NBCU COMCAST MERGER QUESTION

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trolleyk

Could the resultant merger of NBC U and Comcast result in NBC10 relating to to new studio facilities at the Comcast Corporate Building in Center City? They probably could get a nice price for NBC10's Bala Cynwyd property and save money.
 
I sincerely doubt anyone would move WCAU TV as they enjoy the Philadelphia excise tax savings by being in Bala Cynwyd. Moving to Philadelphia means an immediate 5% loos of profits on the agregate. That's why a large number of broascast stations are in Bala Cynwyd to begin with. Besides Comcast will wind up spinning off Broadcast television media. All they really want are the cable properties.
 
I doubt very much that the network O & O's, NBC Network with all its divisions, and the associated cable franchises will be separated.
 
FCC regulations prohibit an entity from owning both a broadcast channel/network and a cable system. A decision will have to be made soon.
 
Maybe they'll just keep a handful of stations like
WNBC - New York
KNBC - Los Angeles
WMAQ- Chicago
WRC - Washington DC
KRON - San Francisco

the sister Telemundo station in the market (dependent on what they do with Telemundo), and sell off the others, and keep a miminal cable presence (by trading cable systems) in those markets...Although in the latter 3 I think Comcast has many systems.

WCAU could go to Hearst Argyle, that owns WBAL WGAL, and other major market stations like WCVB. It'd give them a Mid Atlantic triangle of NBC affiliates. WCAU is detachable and saleable.

Separating WNBC and WRC (tied to the DC news division of NBC) from the NBC network would be tougher.
 
ding12 said:
Maybe they'll just keep a handful of stations like
WNBC - New York
KNBC - Los Angeles
WMAQ- Chicago
WRC - Washington DC
KRON - San Francisco
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KRON-4 hasn't been affiliated nor owned by NBC for close to 10 years and is a comical disaster of it own outside of this Comcast/NBC merger.

The closer this merger looms the more I think it reeks harder than a bait barge. I see nothing in the interest of the public that makes this a good thing for the consumer in the long run. Thankfully, I've sworn off of cable tv years ago.
 
KRON-TV HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NBC. THEY ARE PURELY AN INDEPENDENT SAN FRANCISCO STATION. NBC OWNS A STATION IN SAN JOSE,CA.
 
As far as the NBC owned stations are concerned, once the deal goes through, they will probably be spun off into their own entity funded, sorta like the Viacom/CBS split of a few years ago. NBC is not going let their owned and operated stations just be let go completely just because of an FCC law.
 
There is no regulation on the books. The "no cable system/broadcast station" regulation hasn't been in effect in about a decade.

Whether the FCC tries to enforce a condition of a merger is one issue, but as it stands right now, there is nothing barring that kind of co-ownership.
 
I didn't think so. Cox Communications' flagship station is in Dayton, OH which is also where their headquarters is located and I'm quite sure they have a cable system in their hometown as well.
 
WCAUTVNBC10 said:
I didn't think so. Cox Communications' flagship station is in Dayton, OH which is also where their headquarters is located and I'm quite sure they have a cable system in their hometown as well.
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Cox cable services the Cleveland area in OH.
 
This could mean some bad news for WMGM-TV 40 (NBC).

Right now, WMGM-TV's primary competition in local advertising is Comcast. The local Shore businesses can choose to buy visual air time on Comcast or WMGM.
Comcast already played hardball with them when they dropped CH.40 off the analog in Vineland, Cumberland County. From a cable spot of Ch.21 to Ch.99 to digital-only cable Ch.247 or something there, it still tries to service that county with Vineland news. Given Comcast's monopolistic nature, they could apply pressure so the affiliation is ceased, so that Ch.10 is the only NBC (boosting WCAU's resale value a little) and more that nobody will choose to advertise on WMGM, so that Comcast reaps the entire advertising market, like they do in Ocean county and other counties underserved by being outside the immediate metros of NY or Philly.

Verizon currently doesn't service Atlantic and Cape May Counties, and DirecTV and Dish are without the local pro Philly sports (via CSN-Philly).
 
ding12 said:
WCAU could go to Hearst Argyle, that owns WBAL WGAL, and other major market stations like WCVB. It'd give them a Mid Atlantic triangle of NBC affiliates. WCAU is detachable and saleable.
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If only HA's news theme song were detachable, although I like the coda heard on WGAL and WCVB, than the one heard on WBAL.

ixnay
 
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