Posted on 03 December 2009. Tags: AT&T, Barack Obama, Brian Roberts, broadband provider, Capitol Hill, CEO, CNBC, Comcast, disney, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, MSNBC, NBC, NBC Universal, President, Rolling Stone, Time Warner Cable, United States, Universal Studios, Vivendi, wall street
On Monday night, French media giant Vivendi and NBC parent company General Electric agreed to terms that clear the way for US cable giant Comcast to take a controlling stake in NBC Universal. An announcement from Comcast is expected within days. The proposed merger would create a media behemoth, and clear the way for an unprecedented era of media consolidation across cable, the Internet and broadcast television.
Be afraid. Comcast is both the largest cable company and the largest residential broadband provider in the United States: a $34-billion business with 24 million subscribers, reaching nearly one out of every four homes in the country. NBCU owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Universal Studios, 27 television stations, and a host of other properties. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: "de facto ban", $1 Trillion, abortion, Abortion rights advocates, amendment, Americans, anti-abortion amendment, Antiabortion advocates, ban on abortion subsidies, Barack Obama, bill, bills, block, Capitol Hill, Catholics, caucuses, closed-door negotiations, committee vote, competition, compromise, compromise amendment, Congress, congressional budget analysts, Congressional Budget Office, Conservative, coverage, coverage of abortions, danger to the mother's life, Democratic leader Harry Reid, Democrats, Democrats' healthcare bill, employers, estimates, federal funding of abortion, federal government, federal subsidies, final vote, Finance measure, Finance panel, floor debate, former President Bill Clinton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, funding for abortion, goal, government assistance, government program, government-run program, Health Benefits, Health bill, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health panel, History, House Democratic Leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, illegal immigrants, incest, Independent, insurance, insurance market, insurance plans, insurance policies, Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), lawmakers, legislation, Lousiana, mandate, Medicaid, Medicare, medicine, moderates, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), national government-run public insurance option, national public option, National Right to Life Committee, negotiators, new restrictions, opt out, policyholders, preexisting conditions, premiums, preventive care, private meetings, private money, procedural hurdles, public option, rape, reform, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), Representative Joseph Cao of Louisiana, Republican, Republican John Boehner, Republican Olympia Snowe, Republican-leaning states, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Ben Nelson, Senator Blanche Lincoln, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Mary Landrieu, seniors, states, Stupak amendment, taxes, The House, the Senate, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, uninsured, White House
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – After a narrow win in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama’s fight for a sweeping healthcare overhaul moves to the U.S. Senate where it faces a difficult path to approval. Read the full story
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