{"id":701059,"date":"2010-03-25T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003749"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:51:27","slug":"nbc-and-comcast-get-financing-for-the-mergepocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701059","title":{"rendered":"NBC And Comcast Get Financing For The Mergepocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/jackiedremote-thumb-217x268-35067.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Reuters is reporting that NBC and Comcast have secured financing for their proposed merger. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.<\/p>\n<p>From Reuters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The financing includes a three-year credit agreement providing a $3 billion term loan facility and a $750 million revolving facility for NBC Universal.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a bridge loan agreement to provide a $6.1 billion facility with a syndicate of lenders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Comcast will own a 51% stake in NBC Universal if the merger is approved by regulators, and it now seems they are able to pay for it if\/when it does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62O4GR20100325\" >NBC gets financing for Comcast merger<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that NBC and Comcast have secured financing for their proposed merger. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. From Reuters: The financing includes a three-year credit agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-701059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wnp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701059","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\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}