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Comcast's Bid for Disney Sends Colorado Media Companies Scrambling to Survive.

By Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 15--Comcast Corp.'s hostile bid for the Walt Disney Co. last week has swept two of Colorado's largest companies into a looming battle of media titans.

Liberty Media, which owns interests in multiple cable channels and foreign cable systems, and EchoStar Communications, the nation's second-largest satellite television provider, must forge strong alliances with others or risk becoming sidelined, analysts warned.

"It really stokes the flames of speculation," said Ted Henders

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