In the nation. The winter storm that moved up the east coast yesterday touched off mudslides today in west virginia. Some residents of mingo county had to evacuate. The state says it could take more than a month to clean it all up. But how do you get rid of the ice . Heres jim axelrod. Reporter they just cant wait any longer for nature to do the job in eastern michigan or many other parts of the country. Add today to the long, cold list of recordsetting temperatures. Baltimore, detroit birmingham, and waco, all set records for coldest march 6 ever. So did montpelier, vermont where it was minus 16. But given marchs trend from lion to lamb, forecasters say this month wont be anything like february, which saw monthly records set in cities like buffalo, toronto and cleveland. It wasnt the coldest february ever in boston, just the snow snowiest at nearly 65 inches and maybe the one with the most bad backs. My back hurts. My neighbors back hurts. Everybodys back hurts because theres none sto
Seranac lake, the coldest spot in the nation. The winter storm that moved up the east coast yesterday touched off mudslides today in west virginia. Some residents of mingo county had to evacuate. The state says it could take more than a month to clean it all up. But how do you get rid of the ice . Heres jim axelrod. Reporter they just cant wait any longer for nature to do the job in eastern michigan or many other parts of the country. Add today to the long, cold list of recordsetting temperatures. Baltimore, detroit birmingham, and waco, all set records for coldest march 6 ever. So did montpelier, vermont where it was minus 16. But given marchs trend from lion to lamb, forecasters say this month wont be anything like february, which saw monthly records set in cities like buffalo, toronto and cleveland. It wasnt the coldest february ever in boston, just the snow snowiest at nearly 65 inches and maybe the one with the most bad backs. My back hurts. My neighbors back hurts. Everybodys bac
Associations whose members serve subscribers in small rural markets. Prior to joining the association, he was Vice President and general counsel for star cable so see its. Associates. He received his jd from pacific Pittsburgh University school of law. He was recipient of the law schools most distinguished graduate award. Welcome. Our next waste this witness of columbia law school. He is a law professor where his Research Examines the balance between innovation and competition set i antitrust law, it intellectual property, and other forms of regulation. From 20112012, he served as chief of the antitrust bureau in the office of new York State Attorney general. Before joining columbias faculty, he served as a law clerk. On the u. S. Court of appeals for the seventh circuit. And to Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Harvard College in the heart London School of economics. He studied as a fulbright scholar. We welcome you, professor. Our next witness was mr. Alan, an
Is noon significant concerns not present in comcasts previous deal. Regarding the first component by merging its programming with Time Warner Cables Regional Sports networks and selling them in a bundle comcast will gain greater Bargaining Power against all paytv providers in all regions where Time Warner Cables Regional Sports networks are carried. It will be severe in new york and los angeles where there is an Nbc Television station and must have time warner Regional Sports network. All paytv providers and consumers in the market will be affected by this harm. Including many aca members. Comcast will have an incentive to this it vantage paytv providers that compete directly with the Cable Systems acquires. It will do this by either withholding comcast programming during negotiation and passes or demanding higher prices for its programming. However the competitive harm will not be limited to comcasts paytv rivals. Many of these paytv providers obtain programming through the National C
Strategy, the strategy of cutting back on purchases collapses. Argument, which is that comcast might be able to strike a Better Bargain thanks to its increased size. That is far from clear. The stakes are higher for espn compared to today because espn ises more revenue, but that true for comcast. The stakes are higher for comcast as well as more customers complained to cancel their service. Such a musthave with programmers that again special power. The third analogy is that comcast is just like microsoft. The idea here is that netflix and other online video providers will be undermined. This deserves careful attention because i think we can all agree that preserving innovation and competition is very important. This third analogy seems wrong to me as well. For one thing, the cost of strategies is quite high. There are existing protections under the earlier nbc merger conditions for online video that would be extended to time warner, which could be thought of as a benefit to the deal. W