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To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (892)	3/21/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Pruguy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1260

apparently I'm not communicating my thoughts very well here, or you guys disagree with me and are just to polite to come out and say so Let me try again.... 1) it is illegal, not by justice dept, but the fcc, for a major network to control a cable company.....cable compqanies completely determine what their watchers Can view..this is why....allows for to much control of what the audience is exposed to. the question is, and it is hypothetical since this issue has never arisen....but would the fcc allow for a MAJOR national network to control the largest aggregator of content of different creators(this is broadcast.com)?.....As I see this this is the same situation as a network owning the equivalent of a cable company over the internet....That is really what bcst is, right? I suspect that if they did try to do it, we would see a lot of congressional hearings, and for that reason it won't happen at this point....much to early in the game for a company to make an acquisition like this and then spend so long in washington trying to be sure it gets pushed through. Does anyone follow me here or are you looking at this completely different than i am I would like to point out that other than bw online, no one seems to be giving this any play anymore.......my bet is it doesn't happen anyway