Earlier this week, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., warned that if the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal went through, the company may pull NBC's programming from Netflix. Federal regulators approved the deal Tuesday.
The planned merger by Comcast and NBC Universal is a bad idea, according to a group of hundreds of small cable companies who oppose the deal. They say it could cost consumers $2.4 billion over the next nine years.
MSNBC management is thinking about changing the name of its website, according to The New York Times, to better distinguish it from its more liberal cable network.