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[/img]As you can imagine, the thought of a marriage between a
broadband / cable TV service provider and a content provider for
television and movies has more than a few folks concerned, which is
why it's taken a while for the FCC and its erstwhile chairman Julius
"Caesar" Genachowski to draft the conditions under which it would let
Comcast snatch up 51 percent of NBC Universal. According to the Wall
Street Journal, the FCC wants to require that Comcast make any content
owned by itself and NBCU available to competitors (including streaming
video providers) "at reasonable, nondiscriminatory terms."
Additionally, Comcast will be barred from prioritizing its own video
streams above others or interfering with rival Internet traffic. Of
course, without the actual announcement, it's hard to know what impact
this will have on everyone involved (especially Hulu), although with
any luck the actual proposal will see the light of day soon enough.
Even then, it will need to be approved, which could happen early next
year.
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