comcast market power and distribution gives comcast substantial control over programmer behavior. it will allow it to protect nbcu content. it is so important for programmers to reached the 25% share of the population. comcast has the power to exact substantial compensation ends with channel said do not make programs independently available online. comcast also has a virtually complete discretion in the way it decides to distribute programming through channel placement and pricing. subject only to program schedules that have been difficult to enforce. comcast can use this discretion to protect nbcu content from competition. particularly msnbc and the local regional sports networks. the requirement to not put the programming on mine independently, heightened by its control over this must-have content, and the tv everywhere may allow it to stave off competition from online acker titters. -- agrigators. on-line distribution competitors will not be able to attract investment, advertising, sponsorship, and subscriptions that they will need at scale in order to restrain comcast's pricin

[applause] >> another strong sponsor, comcast. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am glad to be here to give you a greeting. we are proud to be a sponsor this year. we believe in investing in comunities where our sponsors live and work, so this is part of that. juneteenth is certainly a celebration to rejoice in how far we have come, to remember those who got us where we are today, and a moment to reflect on how much further there is to go and how much more work there is to be done. i am proud to say that comcast will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us to get that quality. thank you so much for having me here today. thank you. >> this year, we would like to remember linda for all the work she has done with comcast supporting us. there is strong support of juneteenth for linda, but she is under the weather and was not able to come. but i want to thank her for her support over many, many years. >> ucsf medical center. [applause] >> thank you for letting us be a part of the celebration. >> wells fargo. [applause] >> it is a pleasure to be here today with all of you.

from the heritage friends level, at&t, comcast, and ecology, u.s.k, and from the heritage he tends level, day crossing and bills and, for all those heritage level sponsors, come on -- one big giant thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] and now, i want to say -- it is my business, so you have to really help me thank them. our media sponsors. and our media sponsors, i want to say special thanks to abc7, comcast, once again, inquire.net, sfgovtv, the sense francisco examiner, world channel, and am 1400. please help me bank of the media sponsors. [applause] now, please help me welcome the woman who is an incredible force, the woman who had the vision to bring this together, to bring us all together -- she is the founder and chair of the apa heritage celebration committee. come on out, claudine. [applause] >> welcome to the 2010 celebration of asian pacific american heritage month. on behalf of the celebration committee, all the names are here. which includes representatives from city officials and executives from over 10 @ nicholas in t

and comcast shares rallied as it beat estimates by a penny. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: with the u.s. economic outlook calling for slow growth, many companies are looking overseas to fuel future profits. but making a buck in a foreign land doesn't necessary translate into a dollar back home. tonight's "street critique" guest is wolfgang koester. he's c.e.o. at fireapps, a firm that works with companies to manage their exposures to the ups and downs of the dollar. >> good to see you again, tom. >> tom: what do you think the currency environment is for a company doing business overseas? >> it is volatile, and quite, frankly, in the last five years have been the most volatile and most challenging for these corporations. which is a bit of a shame because of lot of the corporations, as we see through the earnings, have been doing a good job managing their companies through the economic, but they're getting impacted by what they don't neat to be getting impacted by. >> tom: the volatility, marked by a strengthening of the dollar aga

john crane, the executive director who manages the public and educational channels on comcast cable. >> you see cooking shows, political talk shows. we have programs in seven different languages on channel 15. so we are giving voice to a lot of communities that wouldn't have one on television. >> reporter: the shows that air on channel 15 are as diverse as san jose itself. there are about 150 people and organizations who produce content on a regular basis. including this in studio production for a program called arabic tv. >> normally the media, main media, they like to show the bad things, blood, killing. we like to show the other way around. we want to show the culture, the community. >> reporter: create tv is not just a place to make and air community programming. it's a learning center for hundreds of people who want access to state-of-the-art video and editing equipment. members can take classes and rent professional grade, high def field equipment for as little as $20 a day. >> a tripod, a mic, it's here. >> reporter: after two years in their new facility, word of this valuable

they lead again on comcast sports net. one year ago tonight mark threw a perfect game. he was almost as good tonight. the sox left a complete game. the white sox take the opener from the a's 5-1. the a's and curt agreed to a new four year, $16 million deal that will keep him in oakland through 2014. he leads the a's with ten homers this season. little star power across the pond. tom cruise and cameron diaz front row seat. but it's am we are to closing in on second straight tour win. eight second lead with two left. three masked men broke into the home of former warrior held his wife at gunpoint and took a 9- millimeter pistol, a ruby wristwatch. they did lock his wife in the hospital. he was back home in texas when all that played out. >> i'm surprised i didn't make your top five. >> you're always in our top five. >> back at 11:00. [ laughter ] >> see you at 11:00. with high-speed internet from at&t, you can connect to the internet at blazing fast speeds. wow, look at that! so you can go online and check out the news, or you can just catch up with old friends -- hey bud

i was concerned -- does this also cover companies like comcast? the situation with comcast is, if you are already signed up with them for the triple play, they have now come out with xfinity, but you cannot switch over to a cheaper rate because you are already with comcast. guest: there would be no discretion to get involved with that. it is something that possibly the ftc would do, but not this new agency. host: how difficult will it be for people to distinguish? anything involving a consumer, people would be compelled to call. guest: i imagine it is something they will deal with for several years, to define the boundaries of the agency, and explain to americans with the agency does and does not do. the new director will have some discretion. the boundaries are not set in stone. they will have to make decisions about how far to cast their nets. but things like their cable bill, i don't think it will have any involvement with. caller: good morning. i have a question on credit cards. the build date. i have been going through my bills -- the bill da

these highlights courtesy of comcast sports nest. bottom of the first, juan peer scores.ening it up in the 4th. cliff pennington with a chopper. and there is infield singer plays and we're tied at one. there is a labor in the fourth aj prisonski. giants fans remember him. there is part of a three-run fourth. right now they're in the sixth inning and white sox are leading athletics. early optimism dashed by reality in raiders camp. receiver chad shilens. he has pain in that foot again and held out of practice today, again. defensive ball, raiders have a new 40s million man. signing in the first practice there is a saying and it prepared him to step into the pros. >> a lot of guys and really... the may be all that occurred to him. niners open camp this weekend. and there is five-year deals. and his deal worth up to 26 and a half million. $16 kblinl guaranteed. and he'll make about $18 million, 10 that have is guaranteed. niners signed taylor mays in the third rounder bowman. defending champion at bank of the west classic out, and victoria asarenka. and aggie rodwanska. it's

comcast is already extremely powerful. it's the nation's largest cable operator and also the largest home internet service provider. if it owned both the pipes and the programming, it would have the ultimate ability to keep others from publishing. they could just choose to favor their own programming over programming that other companies produce. and withhold its own programming or charge more for it and drive up cable bills. to make matters worse to me, if comcast and nbc merge, i worry that at&t and verizon are going to decide that, well, they have to buy abc news or cbs to compete. and that will mean there will be less independent programming, fewer voices and a smaller marketplace of ideas. that's a first amendment problem. it's also an antitrust problem. so, general kagan, here's my first question. do you agree with justice black that freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution. the freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. >> well, senator franken, i -- first off, let me say that i think that

at at&t the buster posey show continues courtesy comcast sportsnet. there is the base him.is hitting streak is at 21. one offer the san francisco rookie ortho. the giants had a 9-2 lead. this game was over but no. up 9-8, two outs, 9th inning, dan ugla hit a game tying doubling. a blown save for wilson. that game is now in the 10th inning tied at 9. just a lousy couple of days for brian wilson. he was fined $1,000 by major league baseball for wearing these orange cleats in last night's game. marlins manager edwin rodriguez complained that they were too flashy. wilson said he want trying to make a statement simply that his last pair wore down and this was the only other spikes that fit. wilson was told that half the shoes had to be black so he took a black marker to the orange cleats and he wore them today. it didn't help. >>> this year, on the pga tour we have already seen a record tying low round of 59 and a couple of 60s, that was nothing. at the alabama boys state championship, 17-year-old bobby wyatt shot a 14 under par round of 57. that is the lowest round in competiti

caller: i lived in an area where comcast has a monopoly. they have methodically and regularly removed certain channels from the broader network, making them part of the cable network. in addition i think that the motive is to change the way that we use the land line telephones. i think that if they get broadband to enough people they will cut the land lines and everyone will have to use cell phones. that is my comment. i will take the answer of the air. host: let's move on to hampshire, tennessee. caller: i just wanted to say, i do not know if people realize or not, it has been since 2005 or 2006 that the fcc approved technology to carry everything through the infrastructure we have in existence. the host: let's go to rhode island, independent line. caller: thank you, sir. the federal government is funding a lot of different stuff. i would be interested to see where the mandate is in the constitution. i am very wary of that idea. i think you should try to find out who is proposing this funding. if any of these people proposing the funding a