{"id":607121,"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.com\/index\/607121","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xWh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}