Comcast Roundup: FCC approves net neutrality policy and Comcast doesn’t hate it

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DEFINITE READS

• Regulators’ review of Comcast-NBC deal expected to continue into 2011 [Post Tech: Washington Post] paidContent reports that it’s a given that regulation will continue into 2011.
• FCC Pushes Through Net Neutrality—And Draws Fire From Right And Left [paidContent] — Sometimes the trouble with compromise is that neither side is very much happy.
• FCC Votes on Rules for the Open Internet [Comcast blog] SVP David L. Cohen gives a hesitant seal of approval on net neutrality policy from the FCC, though analysts suggest there is still battle to be had over whether the FCC has the authority to govern open internet policies.
• Comcast asks for limited online video conditions to merger with NBC [Post Tech: Washington Post] — “A senior Comcast executive told the Federal Communication Commission Wednesday that if the agency includes online video among conditions for regulatory approval of the company’s proposed merger with NBC Universal, those provisions should be narrowly tailored. “

MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

• Comcast Responds to Level 3’s FCC Filing [Comcast blog] — The company filed a letter with the FCC regarding their dispute with Level 3.
• 2011 Journalism Predictions [Nieman Journalism Lab] Bob Garfield of Advertising age, with perhaps some measure of hyperbole, suggests that in 2011 Comcast will sell NBC to IAC Chairman Barry Diller.
• African American Leadership Organizations and Comcast/NBC Universal Announce Memorandum of Understanding [Comcast blog] — On bringing in racially diverse blocs of support for the NBC merger.

WORTH NOTING

• 50 more high-def channels from Comcast [Philadelphia Business Journal]