By John Eggerton — Multichannel News
As promised, Bloomberg has officially asked the FCC to require Comcast to move Bloomberg Television into “existing news neighborhoods” on its systems, saying that not to do so violates a condition in the FCC’s order approving the NBCU deal.
In a complaint filed early Monday, Bloomberg said [...]

By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times
No political adage gets a more vigorous workout than the one about how the real scandal in Washington isn’t what’s illegal, but what’s legal.
Case in point: Meredith Attwell Baker’s announcement that she will be stepping down as a Federal Communications Commission member in June to join Comcast-NBCUniversal.
Baker’s [...]

Kenneth Corbin, Datamation
After more than a year spent selling a blockbuster media merger to financial analysts, a skeptical public interest sector and government regulators, Comcast has won approval from the federal government to complete its $30 billion takeover of NBC Universal.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission, which had been working closely [...]

By Brooks Boliek, Politico
Giving the green light to the Comcast-NBC Universal deal is stoking the growing fear among the creative community that the federal government isn’t doing enough to protect independent voices on the airwaves and the Internet.
Writers Guild of America-East executive director Lowell Peterson contends that the $30 billion deal [...]

By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times
The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department have approved Comcast Corp.’s deal to take a majority stake in General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, the government actions needed to create a new media and entertainment behemoth that spans television, a Hollywood movie studio and the Internet.
Announced [...]

January 18, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced that it will approve Internet and cable provider Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal. The deal was approved by a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Michael J. Copps dissenting.
The following statement can be attributed to Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and [...]

By Jasmin Melvin, Reuters
(Reuters) – Industry and public interest groups this week stressed the need to rein in Comcast Corp’s power over programing and pricing if it is allowed to buy a majority stake in General Electric Co’s NBC Universal.
In a letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Media Access Project’s [...]

By Jenna Greene, Legal Times
The Federal Communications Commission is in the home stretch of its review of the merger of Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal, but Bloomberg L.P. and a coalition of public interest groups are complaining that key documents have still not been produced by the cable giant.
The FCC’s Media Bureau asked Comcast in [...]

By Todd Shields, Bloomberg
Advocacy groups asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to demand more documents from Comcast Corp. before voting on the cable company’s proposed merger with General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal.
Comcast should supply the FCC with contracts to carry other companies’ programs since 2006, Andrew Jay Schwartzman, policy director of Washington-based Media Access Project, [...]

By Mike Zapler, San Jose Mercury News
WASHINGTON — Comcast is by far the biggest pay-TV provider in the Bay Area. It controls TV rights to Giants, A’s, Sharks and Warriors games. Many of its customers also sign up for high-speed Internet service. And the company, if it has its way, is about to get a [...]