IDG (Beckham) Beijing January 19, according to foreign media reports, U.S. regulators conditionally approved the Comcast (Comcast) acquired the majority stake in NBC Universal, and regulatory agencies NBC is the first condition to give up on the online video site Hulu the day to day management control.
2009 12 months, Comcast announced that it will form a joint venture with General Electric, a value of 300 billion dollars in a joint venture, the two were 51% and 49%. General Electric, NBC Universal will bring new companies to the joint venture while Comcast's cable TV network into assets. Therefore, the joint venture company's business will include broadcast, cable networks, movie studios and theme companies, it can not only control the TV and film production, and how to control the content available to users.
recently, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department approved the deal. In fact, analysts expect several weeks, regulators will approve the deal, but it is somewhat unexpected, the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department for the transaction set strict preconditions.
The first, Comcast is an important basis for the management to give up Hulu. Hulu is a by the News Corporation, Disney and NBC Universal online video site jointly owned. While Comcast and NBC Universal can still be the owner of Hulu, but they will give up voting rights and board seats.
analysts believe that, although this condition is not welcomed by company managers, but the deal will take into account the unit of Comcast and other cable networks MSNBC and USA broadcast television network and NBC combined This transaction will inevitably become negative factors. Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce (David Joyce) said:
This is the first regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions in the future of online video as the main competitors of traditional cable television. Comcast also called for regulators to establish a mechanism to allow other online video service providers have access to NBC Universal's part of the program.
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, by 4 votes in favor, 1 against the vote approved the deal. The agency Chairman Julius 斯格纳乔伊 Chomsky (Julius Genachowski) said in a statement: p> Comcast CEO Brian Roberts (Brian Roberts) expressed gratitude to regulators, saying it was the company's history, In 1963, Brian Roberts, the father of La Fuer Roberts (Ralph Roberts) personally founded this company.
regulatory agencies include other conditions, Comcast must ensure that the public Internet services. Currently, Comcast is the largest U.S. Internet service providers, and regulators want users to see all the Internet content.
other major important condition to ensure that transactions on Comcast cable and satellite service providers is fair, because the transaction is completed, Comcast will be more than NBC and its cable Channel main content owner.
regulatory body set up Sri Lanka for seven years these conditions effectively, set effective than the usual longer. The only vote against the Federal Communications Commission Michael science from Sri Lanka (Michael Copps) member, he opposed the deal because Comcast will become too strong.
deal while other critics have expressed disappointment. Minnesota Democrat Al Franken (Al Franken), said:
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