{"id":4779,"date":"2010-03-12T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:00:53","slug":"comcastnbc-deal-scrutinized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/12\/comcastnbc-deal-scrutinized\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast\/NBC deal scrutinized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Comcast-NBC-Universal1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Comcast-NBC-Universal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Federal regulators insist they&#8217;ll keep a <a title=\"close eye\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iH0ZfYmqiFh9_XxqJXxYKbKrgiGgD9ECMD080\" target=\"_blank\">close eye <\/a>on the proposed merger of Comcast, the country&#8217;s biggest cable-TV operator, and NBC Universal, with its vast content-production empire.\u00a0\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an authority on antitrust law, says the feds need to make sure the merger won&#8217;t crush competition or harm consumers.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But the government should try to make sure that the conditions imposed on the merger do not reduce the potential benefits to consumers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hulton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal regulators insist they&#8217;ll keep a close eye on the proposed merger of Comcast, the country&#8217;s biggest cable-TV operator, and NBC Universal, with its vast content-production empire.\u00a0\u00a0 Law Professor Keith Hylton, an authority on antitrust law, says the feds need to make sure the merger won&#8217;t crush competition or harm consumers. &#8220;But the government should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2477,2475,1364,2476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}