Comments on: Comcast Roundup: NBC deal could be announced next week, Bob Brady fights net neutrality and More http://technicallyphilly.com/2009/11/05/comcast-roundup-nbc-deal-could-be-announced-next-week-bob-brady-fights-net-neutrality-and-more Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Wink http://technicallyphilly.com/2009/11/05/comcast-roundup-nbc-deal-could-be-announced-next-week-bob-brady-fights-net-neutrality-and-more/comment-page-1#comment-2382 Christopher Wink Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:33:40 +0000 http://technicallyphilly.com/?p=6647#comment-2382 To be fair, Comcast has played, admittedly far less meaningful, roles in owning content creation -- like a E!. Agreed, that's no NBC, but isn't it fair a telecommunications company might have more business with NBC than, say, a company that makes microwaves? All that said, your suspicions should be real ones. Google is staying out of content creation for now and that might prove to be an important decision now that many of these companies look to be on the cheap -- who's right in the assessment is yet to be told. -cgw To be fair, Comcast has played, admittedly far less meaningful, roles in owning content creation — like a E!. Agreed, that’s no NBC, but isn’t it fair a telecommunications company might have more business with NBC than, say, a company that makes microwaves?

All that said, your suspicions should be real ones. Google is staying out of content creation for now and that might prove to be an important decision now that many of these companies look to be on the cheap — who’s right in the assessment is yet to be told.
-cgw

]]> By: andrewlee http://technicallyphilly.com/2009/11/05/comcast-roundup-nbc-deal-could-be-announced-next-week-bob-brady-fights-net-neutrality-and-more/comment-page-1#comment-2324 andrewlee Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:12:59 +0000 http://technicallyphilly.com/?p=6647#comment-2324 The Silicon Alley Insider is the only story that gets it right. How many Excite-@Home, AOL-Time Warner mergers must we go through to realize they don't work. Bandwidth does not content make. You think the tech-bureaucrats at Comcast know how to create great content + can make something successful out of NBC to better compete with the likes of HBO, Fox, AMC, Bravo, etc. etc. Culture, mindset, creative energy - not a match. If the deal goes through, rest assured, let's say 3-5 years on the early side for NBC to be something much less than it is today, and on the outside 10 years and the whole thing goes away (sale, spinoff, reconfiguration, or other). Don't need to be Nostradamus to predict this one - just have to look to the previous failed examples + note that there's nothing different this time around. The Silicon Alley Insider is the only story that gets it right. How many Excite-@Home, AOL-Time Warner mergers must we go through to realize they don’t work. Bandwidth does not content make. You think the tech-bureaucrats at Comcast know how to create great content + can make something successful out of NBC to better compete with the likes of HBO, Fox, AMC, Bravo, etc. etc. Culture, mindset, creative energy – not a match. If the deal goes through, rest assured, let’s say 3-5 years on the early side for NBC to be something much less than it is today, and on the outside 10 years and the whole thing goes away (sale, spinoff, reconfiguration, or other). Don’t need to be Nostradamus to predict this one – just have to look to the previous failed examples + note that there’s nothing different this time around.

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