Monday, February 16, 2004

"Welcome to Comcast Country V: The Evil Empire"

John keeps telling me no one wants to read about Comcast and no one cares. However Comcast is one of the number of on going stories I have covered on this blog. Most my readers know the way the cable company has blocked their sportsnet work from the DISH giving people in this area no option if they want to see the Sixers, Flyers and Phillies. They are also known for their awful service and dumb repairman who rarely show up.

Anyway this past week they tried buying the struggling DISNEY. WOW. What a huge, huge company this would be. What most people didn't mention is that they would actually own two hockey teams. They would also have the option to pull the dirty trick they have been pulling on South Jersey for years. Disney owns ABC who owns ESPN, could they pull ESPN from all the dish providers? I don't see why not. Would that? Hmmmm... Perhaps.

The hostile take over never happened, but that doesn't mean that mouse won't be a member of Comcast Country before the end of the year. There seem to be a number of questions that could arise if this deal ever happens.

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