{"id":51992,"date":"2009-11-24T16:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010347156_comcastnotconsumerwinsbiginnbcdeal.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-24T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:32:02","slug":"comcast-not-consumer-wins-big-in-nbc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/51992","title":{"rendered":"Comcast, not consumer, wins big in NBC deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cable company already too controlling and costly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prepare yourself for higher cable rates if Comcast Corp. buys part of NBC Universal [\u201cProtect consumer choice: block NBC\/Comcast deal,\u201d Opinion, Ryan Blethen editorial column, Nov. 22].<\/p>\n<p>Where I live, Normandy Park, the city gave Comcast a 75-year franchise. If they inhale NBC, Comcast will renegotiate those city franchises for a century or more.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s way too long for an industry that is changing every day.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission should stop cold Comcast from becoming any bigger or more controlling.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Bill Wippel, Normandy Park<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable company already too controlling and costly Prepare yourself for higher cable rates if Comcast Corp. buys part of NBC Universal [\u201cProtect consumer choice: block NBC\/Comcast deal,\u201d Opinion, Ryan Blethen editorial column, Nov. 22]. Where I live, Normandy Park, the city gave Comcast a 75-year franchise. If they inhale NBC, Comcast will renegotiate those city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}