Comcast and G.E. Executives Explain Joint Venture

December 3rd, 2009 admin

The specter of past media merger failures, most notably the deal between Time Warner and AOL, inevitably hangs over the Comcast-NBC Universal deal.


Originally posted on TV Decoder

 
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