ATQ PODCAST Special Edition: PAC-10 Media Deal
by Matt Daddy on Oct 7, 2010 11:00 AM PDT
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PrintWith live television broadcast of the Oregon at WSU game being in doubt this weekend, I thought it might be a good idea to do a special podcast with Brian Floyd of CougCenter about the state of the Pac 10 media deal. We discuss for about 30 minutes topics such as, what's going on with the game being on TV this weekend, what the Pac 12 will be looking like when we finally expand and lastly what networks will be vying for the Pac 12 media deal and what that deal might look like.
Thanks to Brian and CougCenter for helping put this together.
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I don't know how to do that.
Maybe Jared or Dave can provide the link… I’m podcast retarded.
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a few points
you don’t mention that Comcast/NBC also own Versus, and the stated goal is to turn Versus into a competitor to ESPN. So Comcast/NBC could have the best football game on primetime after the Notre Dame game, have another football game on Versus, and put all the best basketball games on Versus to compliment their NHL package.
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Ah, see I couldn't remember if Versus fell under that umbrella
It did cross my mind, too. The more I think about it, the more I really like that deal.
and they also have the Mtn. and all the Mountain West stuff
NFL, NHL, Olympics…..they could start to mount a pretty good challenge to ESPN.
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and a lot of local NBA games too for a number of teams
They could really build up a nice package with a headliner being Pac 12 college football if they get that deal.
Another thing I didn’t talk about was the fact that the FCC has asked further questions of Comcast as part of the merger specifically with regard to how they plan on allowing access to their sports channels to Dish and Satellite. Don’t be surprised if you see something about that soon after the NBC merger finalizes.
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Isn’t there still a big FCC hurdle to jump? There appears to be a lot of resistance of the Comcast/NBC merger, such as supporters of Net Neutrality.
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There is some of that
The FCC asked further questions of Comcast and NBC before they gave their stamp of approval and they are still waiting on Comcast/NBC to finalize some of the details, but the President of the company has already been named, they already announced a number of merger changes and planned closures/lay offs etc.
There would have to be a tremendous change for this NOT to happen at this point. In the grand scheme of things the FCC is nothing more than a procedural hurdle with the political capital that Comcast and NBC (as a huge media company) they have.
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And what does the money look like, balanced for each school? How much?
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That's going to be up the Pac 12
NBC or whomever wins the Pac 12 TV contract won’t determine how much goes to which school, the conference will determine the split.
As far as amount of money goes, I think we can all agree it’s going to be a hell of a lot more than what we see now.
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I guess, in my eyes, it depends how fast they can get out of the FCC clearing house. It took them almost 18 months to approve the XM/Sirius merger, and the impact of this merger is significantly larger – though they also can put a significantly larger amount of money behind it.
I’m not shocked that a president of the company has been named, and have projected the changes within the organization. They both obviously business savvy companies – they’ll want to hit the ground running.
Still, the political impact of a merger of this magnitude is fairly significant, as many will see the ability for a Broadcast Network and a Cable/ISP provider control their content. I think congress and the DOJ are going to look at this merger very meticulously. DOJ – because they have to do their own study regarding the merger, and congress will have several questions regarding the impact of consumers and future laws and regulations regarding companies that control two significant parts of the US infrastructure.
What if you had to pay more for ESPN as a Comcast customer?
What if ESPN3 was no longer an option to Comcast members?
What if NBC/Universal content is delivered with broadband priority over competitors?
These questions wouldn’t be too much of a concern if both sole and competitive coverage were more widely available.
It could potentially screw over someone like Dave, who has no access to comcast, and others, who have no access to anything BUT Comcast – and I think there are enough members in congress that are aware of that.
I guess what I am saying is, as much as it would be a great partnership and to get them to back the Pac-10 network, it could take a significant amount of time, and the Pac-10 TV contracts will likely be due before the NBC/Comcast merger is finalized.
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It took them almost 18 months to approve the XM/Sirius merger
Two very different animals. The XM/Sirius merger removed all competition in satellite radio. With NBC/Comcast you still have alternatives you’re just creating a conglomerate between creation and delivery of content.
I think congress and the DOJ are going to look at this merger very meticulously.
The FCC is already doing this. They’ve just requested a laundry list of questions and reports from Comcast about what the plans are for managed services, how pay-per-view, video on demand and other video services are sold and who pays for them (the video provider, subscriber or the network). Although this is not the first merger of this kind (AOL/Time Warner tried this a number of years ago). There is precedence on how to get this type of merger passed, and with the political capital that both Comcast and NBC already have (we’re talking MILLIONS of dollars) I suspect that these questions and concerns are right now a mere formality.
the Pac-10 TV contracts will likely be due before the NBC/Comcast merger is finalized.
I’d be really surprised if that were the case, and I also think if it is still in process that it’s not going to stop negotiations by Comcast if they really want the deal. Obviously, it kept them out of the talks to some degree with the Big 12 situations this off season, but I’m fairly confident that the process will be far enough along that if it’s still not finalized in the DOJ or FCC that they’ll have enough assurance to go out and start to negotiate contracts for future programming.
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The FCC is already doing this. They’ve just requested a laundry list of questions and reports from Comcast about what the plans are for managed services, how pay-per-view, video on demand and other video services are sold and who pays for them (the video provider, subscriber or the network). Although this is not the first merger of this kind (AOL/Time Warner tried this a number of years ago). There is precedence on how to get this type of merger passed, and with the political capital that both Comcast and NBC already have (we’re talking MILLIONS of dollars) I suspect that these questions and concerns are right now a mere formality.
I know the FCC is already doing this, though the DOJ still has to make its own report.
But legislation is going to look at this case too. While they can’t prohibit the merger, they could pass legislation that could handicap the benefits Comcast had in mind when they slapped down their money to merge with NBC Universal.
Comcast has, and continues to already be in hot water with congress and the FCC. They have done DNS hijacking, bandwidth throttling, with poor customer service to boot. If there was ever a merger to accelerate action for congress – this is it.
They would have the means to throttle down bandwidth access to say – foxnews.com, and make the access speed to msnbc.com favorable. (With MSBNC having the more liberal pundits, and FoxNews having the more conservative pundits). Or service to YouTube vs. Hulu (NBC Universal primary asset)
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If there was ever a merger to accelerate action for congress – this is it.
You really think congress can get it’s head out of it’s ass long enough to figure this out. Plus with elections in full swing, don’t think that Comcast isn’t out there buying their way for a greased up approval right now.
We can live in an Utopian fantasy land where large corporations aren’t able to influence their demands on our representatives but that just isn’t the case.
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I was thinking more of after November myself.
It isn’t so much as an utopian fantasy of congress actually DOING something, as the case that Comcast has already been getting put on government watchlists, and this merger would make the company so blatant that the current and future bills will come across more eyes and gain more cosponsors and political validity.
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