Comcast-NBC merger

The Comcast-NBC merger is getting quite a bit of push back from activist groups. One of them, The Coalition for Competition in Media (which includes Bloomberg, Free Press, National Organization for Women, Parents Television Council, and the Writers Guild of America) wrote a letter pointing out something obvious. 

The merger would give Comcast ownership of one of the four major broadcast networks in NBC, the second largest Spanish-language network Telemundo, the nation's dominant business news network in CNBC, several regional sports networks with exclusive rights to popular local sports and an ownership stake in some of the most popular cable networks in addition to being the nation's largest provider of broadband Internet services...the most affected markets would be those where Comcast is the dominant cable and broadband provider and would own one or more local NBC station, the local Telemundo station, and a regional sports network. Those markets include Boston; Chicago; Denver; Fresno; Hartford; Houston; Miami; Philadelphia; Tucson; Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Let's see if this letter has an impact or not. In the meantime, I'm just happy that people aren't sitting on the sidelines ignoring it.