Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2011
By Michael Hiltzik

The most cynical aspect of the government's approval of the giant Comcast-NBC Universal merger this year was that everyone involved suspected that Comcast would try to misuse its newly acquired market power to hurt competitors, yet everyone pretended that the "conditions" imposed on the deal would keep that from happening. The Santa Monica-based Tennis Channel has a message for the chicken-hearted FCC, which greenlighted the Comcast deal in January despite its doubts: We told you so.

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