New media, new television sets, new business model

Comcast’s $16.7 billion deal to purchase the remaining half of NBCUniversal from General Electric solidifies the cable and broadband giant’s role as a media titan and represents a triumph for CEO Brian Roberts, whose father founded Comcast in 1963 by buying a 1,200-subscriber cable TV company in Tupelo, Miss. for $500,000. Since then, Comcast has steadily grown through acquisitions and savvy business deals. It is now the largest cable company in the United States, and one of the largest providers of broadband Internet and home phone service.

Now that tablet computers have taken off and the iPad 2 officially

John Sides had an interesting post a few days ago noting that one of the most successful media models of the past decade has come not from the web but from good old National Public Radio:

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Diane Mermigas submits: The growing rift between content providers and mainstream distributors from Time Warner Cable (TWC) to Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL), which are protecting their turf by connecting with mobile consumers in new ways, is beginning to resemble an existential play.