[mythtv-users] Comcast 'flees $45bn monster-merger with Time Warner Cable'

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 4/24/15 9:04 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Stephen P. Villano
> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/23/15 4:37 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>> Looks like the merger was killed
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/23/comcast_45bn_twc_gobble_declared_dead_in_the_water/
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>> That's good news,
> Not entirely, at least for MythTV users.  Time Warner is one of the
> most MythTV hostile providers out there.  Being acquired by Comcast,
> which is much friendlier by comparison, could have been a good thing
> for many people on this list.  Given that TW and Comcast don't
> actually compete for customers, the people negatively impacted by this
> consolidation would have been content producers, not consumers, as the
> combined company would have had more leverage in negotiating
> contracts.  Conceivably, this could have been passed on to consumers
> as savings.  (Ok, maybe that last point is going too far...)
>
> Eric
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It's been my repeated experience that when two corporations merge, with
one having lousy customer service, the one that had barely acceptable or
even excellent customer service tends to end up having lousy customer
service.

Examples are the Sanyo-Fisher merger and the Sears-Kmart merger.