ACA Chairman: Comcast/NBCU Would Have More Power Than Any Company Deserves

Talking to a roomful of small and medium-sized cable operators, American Cable Association Chairman Steve Friedman said it was time for the discrimination against smaller operators to stop, including arguing that a Comcast/NBCU merger has more clout "than any one company deserves."

In a speech at a Washington policy update session at the Independent Show in Baltimore, Friedman said that whether the issue is network neutrality, retransmission consent reform, broadband reclassification or the Comcast-NBCU merger, the problem boils down to big vs. small.