Dish Network's Ergen raises concerns over Comcast-NBC merger

Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen said last week in an earnings conference call with analysts that he is concerned about a mega merger between Comcast, the nation's largest cable system, and television and movie producer NBC Universal. And he said look to Comcast's current practices with content distribution on how a merged Comcast/NBC may act in the future: "Obviously, we would have concerns with anybody who owns programming and ... distribution, particularly if they owned distribution in both broadband and cable. Programming access and broadband neutrality would be important issues there. We've purchased programming content from Comcast for a long time. We're not treated fairly when it comes to the sports teams in Philadelphia. That ... has always smelled a little bit... So, there always have been some issues there."