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As part of the its ongoing diversity pledge to federal regulators who blessed its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal, Comcast said it will launch two African-American majority owned networks in January 2019. The company said the selection of Afro and Cleo TV, both offering African-American entertainment, followed a…

A Philadelphia Inquirer report recounts how the Comcast team locked in on FCC Democrat Mignon Clyburn, who joined the commission in 2009 and who was one of the five who eventually decided if Comcast should get NBC Universal. Comcast strategists studied the members of the FCC and came to the conclusion that Clyburn…

UPDATED: Here's the WGA, West’s statement on the Comcast-NBCU merger, approved yesterday: “After a thorough review of yesterday’s announcements by the FCC and DOJ, the WGAW disagrees with their decisions approving the Comcast-NBCU merger. Even with the conditions placed on the merger by the FCC and the DOJ, we believe…

UPDATE: In a 4-1 vote, the FCC has approved Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal. Democrat commissioner Michael Copps cast the lone dissenting opinion, saying that “it confers too much power in one company’s hands.” The deal should close by the end of January. Of course, there are plenty of conditions set forth by the…

A day after Comcast issued a statement saying that its proposed merger with NBC Universal won’t receive government approval by the end of the year, the company secured a key FCC  vote. The commission’s chairman Julius Genachowski today issued a draft order approving the deal with some conditions and putting it up for…

Comcast today confirmed what observers had been predicting for awhile: that the merger with NBC Universal won’t be completed by the end of this year as Comcast had hoped because of a delay in the regulatory approval process. "We believe the FCC and the DOJ continue to make substantial process toward approval of our…