Alison Minea
Corporate Counsel
alison.minea @dishnetwork.com
(202) 293-0981
December 8, 2010
EX PARTE PRESENTATION
Ms. Marlene H. Dortch
Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
Re: Ex Parte Presentation in MB Docket No. 10-56, Applications of Comcast
Corporation, General Electric Company and NBC Universal, Inc. For Consent to
Assign Licenses or Transfer Control of Licensees
Dear Ms. Dortch:
Pursuant to Section 1.1206 of the Commission?s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.1206, DISH Network
(?DISH?) submits this letter summarizing its meeting on December 7, 2010 with Edward
Lazarus, Rick Kaplan, Paul de Sa, and John Flynn. Present at the meeting on behalf of
DISH were Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Programming;
Jeff Blum, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel; and Alison Minea,
Corporate Counsel.
During the meeting, we discussed potential harms to traditional and online video
competition that would result from the combination of Comcast and NBCU. In particular,
we emphasized that strong conditions on the merger will be necessary to prevent Comcast
from abusing its control of the broadband pipe to harm competition from both traditional
pay-TV providers and from emerging online video providers. We also noted that the
unprecedented concentration of ?must-have? content within a single integrated company
poses grave threats to the ability of competing multichannel video programming distributors
(?MVPDs?) to obtain rights to critical content on fair prices, terms and conditions.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Alison Minea
Alison Minea
1110 Vermont Avenue NW ? Suite 750 ? Washington, D.C. 20005
cc: Edward Lazarus
Rick Kaplan
Paul de Sa
John Flynn
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