Business Wire search Local Sites Inq. Allen, who has been on a cable-buying spree in the last year, may play a role as an investor. An AOL spokeswoman declined to comment. It is hard to make sense of all this chaos.
Nobody is right and nobody knows.
The deal-makers don't know what deal they will make six months from now. A major issue for Comcast is voting control of the company. The Roberts family, led by father Ralph and son Brian, controls the company's voting shares. To craft a deal, the Robertses might be forced to give up some control, but the family has shown no indication in the past that it would do that. Earlier this year, the Robertses declined an offer from MediaOne to buy Comcast.