Comcast’s incentive and ability to “foreclose competing Latino...
Comcast’s incentive and ability to “foreclose competing Latino content providers” from being competitive will increase if its proposed deal to buy Time Warner Cable is approved, Entravision CEO Walter Ulloa and other Entravision executives told Philip Verveer, aide to FCC…
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Chairman Tom Wheeler, said an ex parte filing posted in docket 14-57 Friday (http://bit.ly/ZreoVV). Comcast is affiliated with Entravision’s competitor Telemundo, and the FCC should condition any approval of Comcast/TWC with “structural remedies” to “ensure that Comcast doesn’t produce content that competes with its unaffiliated programmers and does not become a dominant” multichannel video program distributor to the Latino market, it said.