FCC's Approval of Comcast-NBCU Venture Offers New Options for Over-the-Top Video Providers

摘要

One of the primary potential harms the FCC believes has been posed by the Comcast Corp.-NBC Universal joint venture agreement is its impact on nascent online video service providers. According to the text of the FCC's memorandum opinion and order conditionally approving the transaction, the FCC acknowledged that consumers have not in large numbers "cut the cord"-or eliminated their multichannel video programming distributor to rely exclusively on over-the-top video options-but the Commission made clear with conditions in the order that it wants to enable online video distributors to become more legitimate alternatives for multichannel video services going forward.