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by nashashmi 4078 days ago
True, but it was never the end users who were going to be affected by this deal. It was the suppliers and vendors and other service providers who were going to be hurt because there were going to be fewer and fewer clients that they could work with.
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Bingo.

There were precisely zero content providers (outside NBC) who were looking forward to dealing with a monopsony that also owned a direct competitor.