Comcast CEO Praises Fox News…On Fox News

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by Steve Krakauer | 6:37 pm, April 22nd, 2010

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts was a guest on Fox News’ 4pmET show Your World. Of course, Comcast is the company in the process of acquiring NBCU – so, the potential head of MSNBC in the near future.

Host Neil Cavuto didn’t hold back in asking about the competing cable network.

Cavuto asked Roberts about the recent Donny Deutsch incident to start the interview. “I don’t know about any of that specifics at all,” said Roberts.

He also spoke more broadly about the TV company he’s looking to acquire. “NBC is running NBC, Comcast is running Comcast, we hope to put the two together this year. We think we have been able to make the case,” he said, also noting, “MSNBC and NBC cable and really all of the assets of NBC Universal have been underappreciated by a lot of investors.”

But in praising cable, he also praised Fox News:
“USA is still the number one rated cable channel, you guys [Fox News] have done a great job but they’ve done a lot of great jobs in cable programming as well as NBC and the Olympics. We’ll have a lot more to say when we finally get to closing.”

Cavuto also asked about RightNetwork: “Hopefully in a thoughtful way we can put all points of view and let the viewers pick and choose from the best content available.”

How much longer in the acquisition process can the CEO of Comcast appear on Fox News?

Here’s the interview:

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NORBIT

LOL!

Don’t worry Olbermann, you can always do your contrived “rants” from the many full-service reststops along the highways; that’s probably where most of your dwindling audience hangs out anyway!

LOL!!
StewartIII

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Sunnyr

RightNetWork coming this summer! BRAVO!

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Fidoohki

I liked the part about him looking to hire neil before he’d look to hire katie couric for msnbc… Keith Olbermann
would have an stroke….
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If you actually listen to the interview clip, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts diplomatically praises MSNBC, NBC, and USA in addition to Fox. He cleverly sidetracks ever issue, but suggests that he is pleased with what MSNBC and NBC are already doing. He provides no suggestion that program changes are imminent if Comcast buys up NBCU (including MSNBC). As Mr. Shakespeare might observe, this article is much ado about nothing.

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