Chairman To Circulate Comcast/NBCU Order

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will circulate the Comcast/NBCU order to the other commissioners Thursday, the FCC announced.

They will then have up to four weeks to vote the order.

The deal is expected to be approved with program access conditions and possibly online content conditions as well.

Even if the commissioners voted it
before the end of the year, the companies have signaled that the deal
will not close until at least January.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.