, a cable provider and here's an exchange she had with cliff stearns and brian roberts. >> given the comcast would have been gaining a new cable properties to compete with your company, one advantage with this came from the withholding content from you or your customers? >> web advantage? i can't talk for the same content, i don't have access to the content, where does my customer go to my competitor to it comcast? >> mr. roberts, you might want to comment on either her comments were dr. cooper's? >> i go back to the principle here. first of all, content is going to be made available to competitors and is available today. the last two years comcast loss nationally and over about a million and have customers wow satellite and a wide open west have added over 7 million. in crack the second and third largest distributors in today are two satellite companies. so there is a very competitive market. one of the reasons we want to get more invested in content is we see the value of that growing and i think the premise of the way you phrase the question i agree with witches will be well serve

these things get really technical, and he got into an argument with brian roberts during the hearing about some of those issues. it was fun to watch, but the bottom line is, one of the things comcast is running up against across the board is that as part of anything they said they were going to do, we will abide by the lot and you should trust us. a lot of people do not trust them. >> joelle tessler, was it significant that it was held by the antitrust subcommittee and the other hearing was held by the house judiciary committee? >> basically, the two committee's will be paying attention to this. it will be commerce and judiciary. i have a feeling the other two committees will be holding hearings. >> so what is next in this process? >> those hearings will be the next step. it will be a long review. comcast said it will

and here's an exchange she had with cliff stearns and brian roberts. >> given that comcast would not be gaining any new cable properties to compete with your company, what advantage would this company gain from withholding content from you or your customers? >> what advantage -- i can't offer the same content. if i don't have access to the content, where does my customer go? to my competitor, to comcast. >> uh-huh. mr. roberts, you might want to comment on her comment or dr. coopers? >> well, i go back to the principle here. first of all, the content is going to be made available to our competitors. is available today. in the last two years comcast has lost nationally over about a million and a half customers while phone and satellite and the wide open west of the country have added over 7 million. the distributorses in the multichannels today is two separate companies. it's a very competitive market. one of the reasons we want to get more invested in content is we see the value of that content growing. and i think the premise of the way you phrased the question i agree with which is

brian roberts is the chairman and chief executive officer of the comcast corporation. mr.ff zucker is the chief executive officer of nbc universal. ms. abdoulah is the president of cable and telephone. mr. michael tiorile is the chairman of the nbc tv's affiliate board, the president and chief operating officer of the dispatched printing company. dr. mark cooper is the director of research at the consumer federation of america. mr. adam tha dwrchlt er is the president of the progress and freedom foundation. we welcome each of you. thank you for your testimony. without objection, your prepared written statement will be made a part of our record. we would welcome your oral summary and ask that you keep your oral summary to approximately five minutes. mr. roberts, we will be pleased to begin with you. you need to turn your microphone on and pull it as close as you can so we can hear you well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. is that okay? it's a privilege to come here today to talk about comcast planned joint venture with ge regarding nbc universal. as has been mentioned, my fathe

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picture from the house energy and commerce subcommittee -- and right now they are questioning brian robertssed merger. we have live cartridge of that right now on c-span3 and on our website c-span.org. you see mr. roberts on the screen. this afternoon the gentleman will be going across capitol hill to the senate side and if the hearing continues we will have live coverage on our internet site. missouri, carl, it independent line. you are on the air. caller: my comments are relative to the budget and the young man that was on there from the heritage foundation. first i would like to say that every member he " it was incorrect. iowa buono if he does not realize what he is looking -- i don't know if he does not realize what he is looking at are pulling things out of the air. anybody with a computer can log on to the treasury department and get the debt for any day. the day george bush left office, the national debt was $10 trillion. also historical financial schedules of a government are on the website and contrary to his statement that deficits during the bush administration was 100 and some

brian roberts is the chairman and chief executive officer of the comcast corporation. mr.f zucker is the chief executive officer of nbc universal. ms. abdoulah is the president of cable and telephone. mr. michael tiorile is the chairman of the nbc tv's affiliate board, the president and chief operating officer of the dispatched printing company. dr. mark cooper is the director of research at the consumer federation of america. mr. adam tha dwrchlt er is the president of the progress and freedom foundation. we welcome each of you. thank you for your testimony. without objection, your prepared written statement will be made a part of our record. we would welcome your oral summary and ask that you keep your oral summary to approximately five minutes. mr. roberts, we will be pleased to begin with you. you need to turn your microphone on and pull it as close as you can so we can hear you well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. is that okay? it's a privilege to come here today to talk about comcast planned joint venture with ge regarding nbc universal. as has been mentioned, my father

and he got into sort of an argument with brian roberts during the hearing about some of those issues. which it was -- it was fun to watch but i think the bottom line here is that one of the things that comcast is running up against here across-the-board is that -- anything that they've said they're going to do in this deal they say well, we're going to abide by the law. you should trust us that this is in the public's best interest. the problem is a lot of people don't trust them. >> host: joelle tessler, was it significant that the senate hearing was held by the judiciary antitrust subcommittee while the house hearing was held by the telecommunications subcommittee? >> guest: well, i have a feeling that before this whole thing house judiciary committees weighing in, too. basically the two committees in both chambers that really have jurisdiction are going to be paying attention to this are going to be commerce and judiciary. so i think they just scheduled these two back to back since the executives are in town. i could be wrong. maybe knows better. i think the other two committees ar

brian roberts is the chairman and chief executive officer of the comcast corporation. mr.ff zucker is the chief executive officer of nbc universal. ms. abdoulah is the president of cable and telephone. mr. michael tiorile is the chairman of the nbc tv's affiliate board, the president and chief operating officer of the dispatched printing company. dr. mark cooper is the director of research at the consumer federation of america. mr. adam tha dwrchlt er is the president of the progress and freedom foundation. we welcome each of you. thank you for your testimony. without objection, your prepared written statement will be made a part of our record. we would welcome your oral summary and ask that you keep your oral summary to approximately five minutes. mr. roberts, we will be pleased to begin with you. you need to turn your microphone on and pull it as close as you can so we can hear you well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. is that okay? it's a privilege to come here today to talk about comcast planned joint venture with ge regarding nbc universal. as has been mentioned, my fathe