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Side of the market, it will be almost entirely comcast with a few other people way down the list, theyre going to take your home internet connections, your wire line service, the phone companies are saying okay, were going to take the mobile market and we like it if there were fewer than four of us, weve tried that, but the big two will be dominant and all of a sudden as a consumer you have very few choices and if they sdecide to start discriminating, blocking websites you dont have anywhere els...

Of customer service. >> they have nobody to switch to? >> theyre the only game in town. if you want high-speed internet in most of the country your only choice is the local cable company and for more and more americans and maybe a lot more, that company is comcast. now that doesnt mean that, you know, people want to give up the internet or dont want to be able to watch shows like this, they absolutely do, but it does mean that consumers dont have a lot of freedom. they dont have a lot of choice....

Entertainment channels. >> i think theres real concerns for people with comcast having this much control. they do own and operate one of the biggest news operations there is, nbc. and all of the nbc cable channels as well as dozens and dozens of local television stations and theres a lot of incentive for comcast if they could get away with it to give a leg up for their own content and services. thats true on the news side, thats true on the entertainment side. >> now comcast, we asked them to co...

Dangerous. why do you say that? >> shocked and appalled is absolutely right, brian. i think this deal, if it goes through, would give comcast way too much power over what we watch watch, see, hear, read and download every day. this would make comcast a gatekeeper basically over all our forms of media and communication, giving them a lot of power to dictate the terms of the business, to decide what goes on the internet and what doesnt, certainly what goes on your cable system and what doesnt and ...

Level. so nationally, yes, maybe. they said the bans are lifted and crisis over. well, crisis continues. >> sometimes local reporters hate it when national reporters bigfoot onto their turf but i feel like in this case what im hearing from you is come on by, please come back, theres a big story to cover. >> well, and i think we feel like we are still going through this crisis, and i feel like it has been kind of portrayed like, okay, the crisis is over. and were moving in that direction. you kno...

Made a surprise move to merger time warner cable. comcast is already a giant, the number one cable company in the country and if this deal is approved by the government it will take over the number two cable company and get even bigger. heres what you need to understand about comcast. its unique because it doesnt just distribute other peoples television channels but it owns some of the channels, nbc, bravo, msnbc, usa, with this new merger the fear is comcast will use its muscle to help out its ...

Long-time leader leaving "30 rock." >> yes. and you know, jeff was never going to survive the merger. comcast wants to come in, they want to impose their own executive culture on the company. as you pointed out in your introduction, jeff is blamed for a lot of blunders at the network. and even though comcast is getting nbc, the broadcast network is still the public face if you will of the company, the television portion of that company. so he was never going to survive this merger. >> right. alt...

Much like baseball managers. job security isnt part of the package. jeff zucker told me he knew he might be shown the door when cable giant comcast agreed to buy nbc news from general electric, but that didnt make him any less emotional about being booted from the place he spent the last quarter of a century. >> jeff zucker, the ceo of nbc news universal, a former executive producer this broadcast and the "today" show, announced hell be leaving his post pending comcast assuming control of the co...

Tamp, media critic for the "st. petersburg times." here in washington, executive producer of "bbc americas" "bbc world news america." are you feeling their pain? you got sacked as producer of the news six months after courics debut. can be a brutal business. >> i was looking at my iphone friday and thought, boy, this is not a good day to be a middle aged white media executive. i was attempted to hide under the desk. sure, nobody likes to get fire department. -- fired. i didnt and im sure these g...