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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and ViacomCBS Chairman Shari Redstone Met to Discuss Streaming Partnership<blockquote>康卡斯特首席执行官布莱恩·罗伯茨和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司董事长莎莉·雷石东会面讨论流媒体合作伙伴关系</blockquote>

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Comcast&nbsp;Corp.Chief Executive Brian Roberts met withViacomCBSInc.Chairman Shari Redstone in recent weeks to discuss a potential streaming partnership for international markets, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign the media companies see opportunities to join forces.<blockquote>6月下旬的会议还包括维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司首席执行官罗伯特·巴基什；专注于在国际市场上联手的潜力。康卡斯特公司。据知情人士透露，首席执行官布莱恩·罗伯茨(Brian Roberts)最近几周会见了维亚康姆CBSInc.董事长莎莉·雷石东(Shari Redstone)，讨论了国际市场潜在的流媒体合作伙伴关系，这表明媒体公司看到了联手的机会。</blockquote> During the meeting, which was held around the end of June in New York, and which also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish, the executives discussed a variety of possible business partnerships that would allow the companies to enter non-U.S. markets together, the people said.<blockquote>知情人士称，在6月底左右在纽约举行的会议上，ViacomCBS首席执行官罗伯特·巴基什(Robert Bakish)也出席了会议，高管们讨论了各种可能的商业合作伙伴关系，这些合作伙伴关系将使两家公司能够共同进入非美国市场。</blockquote> The partnership talks come as both Comcast and ViacomCBS are preparing to expand their streaming services in international markets.<blockquote>此次合作谈判正值康卡斯特和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司准备在国际市场扩大其流媒体服务之际。</blockquote> In May, ViacomCBS said its Paramount+ service would be available in 45 markets by 2022. In April, Mr. Roberts said that Comcast was looking to strike partnerships with local programmers and distributors in overseas markets to boost Peacock, the service launched by its NBCUniversal division. Comcast’s Sky <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a> unit in Europe also has a streaming operation.<blockquote>今年5月，ViacomCBS表示，到2022年，其Paramount+服务将在45个市场推出。今年4月，罗伯茨表示，康卡斯特正在寻求与海外市场的当地程序员和发行商建立合作伙伴关系，以推广其NBCUniversal部门推出的Peacock服务。康卡斯特的天空<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a>欧洲的单位也有流媒体业务。</blockquote> Media companies across the industry are looking for ways to bolster their streaming services to better compete with giants such asNetflixInc.andWalt DisneyCo.’s Disney+. Bundling services together through commercial partnerships is <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> option.<blockquote>整个行业的媒体公司都在寻找加强流媒体服务的方法，以更好地与NetflixInc.和华特迪士尼公司的Disney+等巨头竞争。通过商业伙伴关系将服务捆绑在一起是<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">一</a>选择。</blockquote> Some companies have chosen to strike mergers.Amazon.comInc.in May agreed to buy Hollywood studio MGM, andAT&amp;TInc.isspinning off WarnerMedia, home to HBO Max, into a venture withDiscoveryInc.<blockquote>一些公司选择进行合并。亚马逊公司(Amazon.comInc.)在5月份同意收购好莱坞电影公司米高梅(MGM)，而AT&amp;Inc.正在将HBO Max的母公司华纳媒体(WarnerMedia)分拆为与DiscoveryInc.的合资企业。</blockquote> Some analysts on Wall Street view Comcast and Viacom aspotential candidates for a mergerat some point. Mr. Roberts has been scoping out potential acquisition targets for Comcast, including ViacomCBS, but has told people close to him hedoesn’t feel the need to seek a merger, The Wall Street Journal reported.<blockquote>华尔街的一些分析师认为康卡斯特和维亚康姆在某个时候是合并的潜在候选者。据《华尔街日报》报道，罗伯茨一直在为康卡斯特寻找潜在的收购目标，包括维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司，但他告诉与他关系密切的人，他认为没有必要寻求合并。</blockquote> At an investor event in late May, Comcast Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanagh said, “We like the hand we have and M&amp;A is not an answer…but we’ll obviously do what’s right for shareholders as time passes.”<blockquote>在5月下旬的一次投资者活动中，康卡斯特首席财务官迈克·卡瓦纳(Mike Cavanagh)表示：“我们喜欢我们所拥有的手，并购并不是答案……但随着时间的推移，我们显然会为股东做正确的事情。”</blockquote> Ms. Redstone, whose National Amusements Inc. has a roughly 80% voting stake in ViacomCBS, is open to a deal if a suitor comes along with a compelling offer, people close to her say. There would be potential roadblocks to a deal between Comcast and Viacom, including the possibility of pushback from regulators in Washington, analysts say.<blockquote>与雷石东关系密切的人士表示，雷石东的国家娱乐公司(National Amusements Inc.)拥有维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司(ViacomCBS)约80%的投票权股份，如果收购者提出令人信服的报价，她愿意接受交易。分析师表示，康卡斯特和维亚康姆之间的交易可能会遇到潜在的障碍，包括华盛顿监管机构可能会抵制。</blockquote> A commercial partnership could offer some of the benefits of a merger. Tech publication the Information earlier reported that Comcast and ViacomCBS were in contact aboutlaunching in some international markets.<blockquote>商业伙伴关系可以提供合并的一些好处。科技出版物the Information早些时候报道称，康卡斯特和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司正在就在一些国际市场推出产品进行接触。</blockquote> Both Comcast and Viacom were relatively late to the streaming arena and now are trying to make headway both in the U.S. and abroad.<blockquote>康卡斯特和维亚康姆进入流媒体领域相对较晚，现在正试图在美国和海外取得进展。</blockquote> NBCUniversal’s Peacock service has built a sizable audience for ad-supported programming but is trying to grow its subscription business substantially, people close to the company say. Comcast said in late April that Peacock had 42 million sign-ups. But fewer than 10 million consumers paid for the service as of May, the Journal previously reported.<blockquote>接近该公司的人士表示，NBCUniversal的Peacock服务已经为广告支持的节目建立了相当多的观众群，但正在努力大幅发展其订阅业务。康卡斯特在4月下旬表示，Peacock拥有4200万注册用户。但据《华尔街日报》此前报道，截至5月份，只有不到1000万消费者为该服务付费。</blockquote> Peacock’s $4.99-per-month premium version is free to Comcast pay-TV and broadband customers and is also available to those of Cox Communications Inc.<blockquote>Peacock每月4.99美元的高级版本对康卡斯特付费电视和宽带客户免费，考克斯通信公司的客户也可以使用。</blockquote> The potential overseas partnership with ViacomCBS could involve both Peacock and the U.K.-based Sky, one of the people familiar with the matter said.<blockquote>一位知情人士表示，与ViacomCBS的潜在海外合作伙伴关系可能涉及Peacock和英国Sky。</blockquote> ViacomCBS said in May that the company now has 35.9 million subscribers to its streaming services, which include Paramount+, Showtime and BET+. The company said that its ad-supported PlutoTV service had 49.5 million monthly active users and that its total streaming revenue reached $816 million in the third quarter.<blockquote>ViacomCBS在5月份表示，该公司目前拥有3590万流媒体服务订阅者，其中包括Paramount+、Showtime和BET+。该公司表示，其广告支持的PlutoTV服务拥有4950万月活跃用户，第三季度流媒体总收入达到8.16亿美元。</blockquote> Before ViacomCBS launched Paramount+, Comcast floated the idea of the companies joining forces on streaming, the Journal reported. Viacom wasn’t interested at the time.<blockquote>据《华尔街日报》报道，在维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司推出派拉蒙+之前，康卡斯特提出了两家公司在流媒体领域联手的想法。维亚康姆当时并不感兴趣。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and ViacomCBS Chairman Shari Redstone Met to Discuss Streaming Partnership<blockquote>康卡斯特首席执行官布莱恩·罗伯茨和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司董事长莎莉·雷石东会面讨论流媒体合作伙伴关系</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nComcast CEO Brian Roberts and ViacomCBS Chairman Shari Redstone Met to Discuss Streaming Partnership<blockquote>康卡斯特首席执行官布莱恩·罗伯茨和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司董事长莎莉·雷石东会面讨论流媒体合作伙伴关系</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\nThe Wall Street Journal2021-07-20 19:42\n\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n Late June meeting also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish; focused on potential to join forces in international markets. Comcast&nbsp;Corp.Chief Executive Brian Roberts met withViacomCBSInc.Chairman Shari Redstone in recent weeks to discuss a potential streaming partnership for international markets, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign the media companies see opportunities to join forces.<blockquote>6月下旬的会议还包括维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司首席执行官罗伯特·巴基什；专注于在国际市场上联手的潜力。康卡斯特公司。据知情人士透露，首席执行官布莱恩·罗伯茨(Brian Roberts)最近几周会见了维亚康姆CBSInc.董事长莎莉·雷石东(Shari Redstone)，讨论了国际市场潜在的流媒体合作伙伴关系，这表明媒体公司看到了联手的机会。</blockquote> During the meeting, which was held around the end of June in New York, and which also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish, the executives discussed a variety of possible business partnerships that would allow the companies to enter non-U.S. markets together, the people said.<blockquote>知情人士称，在6月底左右在纽约举行的会议上，ViacomCBS首席执行官罗伯特·巴基什(Robert Bakish)也出席了会议，高管们讨论了各种可能的商业合作伙伴关系，这些合作伙伴关系将使两家公司能够共同进入非美国市场。</blockquote> The partnership talks come as both Comcast and ViacomCBS are preparing to expand their streaming services in international markets.<blockquote>此次合作谈判正值康卡斯特和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司准备在国际市场扩大其流媒体服务之际。</blockquote> In May, ViacomCBS said its Paramount+ service would be available in 45 markets by 2022. In April, Mr. Roberts said that Comcast was looking to strike partnerships with local programmers and distributors in overseas markets to boost Peacock, the service launched by its NBCUniversal division. Comcast’s Sky <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a> unit in Europe also has a streaming operation.<blockquote>今年5月，ViacomCBS表示，到2022年，其Paramount+服务将在45个市场推出。今年4月，罗伯茨表示，康卡斯特正在寻求与海外市场的当地程序员和发行商建立合作伙伴关系，以推广其NBCUniversal部门推出的Peacock服务。康卡斯特的天空<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a>欧洲的单位也有流媒体业务。</blockquote> Media companies across the industry are looking for ways to bolster their streaming services to better compete with giants such asNetflixInc.andWalt DisneyCo.’s Disney+. Bundling services together through commercial partnerships is <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> option.<blockquote>整个行业的媒体公司都在寻找加强流媒体服务的方法，以更好地与NetflixInc.和华特迪士尼公司的Disney+等巨头竞争。通过商业伙伴关系将服务捆绑在一起是<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">一</a>选择。</blockquote> Some companies have chosen to strike mergers.Amazon.comInc.in May agreed to buy Hollywood studio MGM, andAT&amp;TInc.isspinning off WarnerMedia, home to HBO Max, into a venture withDiscoveryInc.<blockquote>一些公司选择进行合并。亚马逊公司(Amazon.comInc.)在5月份同意收购好莱坞电影公司米高梅(MGM)，而AT&amp;Inc.正在将HBO Max的母公司华纳媒体(WarnerMedia)分拆为与DiscoveryInc.的合资企业。</blockquote> Some analysts on Wall Street view Comcast and Viacom aspotential candidates for a mergerat some point. Mr. Roberts has been scoping out potential acquisition targets for Comcast, including ViacomCBS, but has told people close to him hedoesn’t feel the need to seek a merger, The Wall Street Journal reported.<blockquote>华尔街的一些分析师认为康卡斯特和维亚康姆在某个时候是合并的潜在候选者。据《华尔街日报》报道，罗伯茨一直在为康卡斯特寻找潜在的收购目标，包括维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司，但他告诉与他关系密切的人，他认为没有必要寻求合并。</blockquote> At an investor event in late May, Comcast Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanagh said, “We like the hand we have and M&amp;A is not an answer…but we’ll obviously do what’s right for shareholders as time passes.”<blockquote>在5月下旬的一次投资者活动中，康卡斯特首席财务官迈克·卡瓦纳(Mike Cavanagh)表示：“我们喜欢我们所拥有的手，并购并不是答案……但随着时间的推移，我们显然会为股东做正确的事情。”</blockquote> Ms. Redstone, whose National Amusements Inc. has a roughly 80% voting stake in ViacomCBS, is open to a deal if a suitor comes along with a compelling offer, people close to her say. There would be potential roadblocks to a deal between Comcast and Viacom, including the possibility of pushback from regulators in Washington, analysts say.<blockquote>与雷石东关系密切的人士表示，雷石东的国家娱乐公司(National Amusements Inc.)拥有维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司(ViacomCBS)约80%的投票权股份，如果收购者提出令人信服的报价，她愿意接受交易。分析师表示，康卡斯特和维亚康姆之间的交易可能会遇到潜在的障碍，包括华盛顿监管机构可能会抵制。</blockquote> A commercial partnership could offer some of the benefits of a merger. Tech publication the Information earlier reported that Comcast and ViacomCBS were in contact aboutlaunching in some international markets.<blockquote>商业伙伴关系可以提供合并的一些好处。科技出版物the Information早些时候报道称，康卡斯特和维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司正在就在一些国际市场推出产品进行接触。</blockquote> Both Comcast and Viacom were relatively late to the streaming arena and now are trying to make headway both in the U.S. and abroad.<blockquote>康卡斯特和维亚康姆进入流媒体领域相对较晚，现在正试图在美国和海外取得进展。</blockquote> NBCUniversal’s Peacock service has built a sizable audience for ad-supported programming but is trying to grow its subscription business substantially, people close to the company say. Comcast said in late April that Peacock had 42 million sign-ups. But fewer than 10 million consumers paid for the service as of May, the Journal previously reported.<blockquote>接近该公司的人士表示，NBCUniversal的Peacock服务已经为广告支持的节目建立了相当多的观众群，但正在努力大幅发展其订阅业务。康卡斯特在4月下旬表示，Peacock拥有4200万注册用户。但据《华尔街日报》此前报道，截至5月份，只有不到1000万消费者为该服务付费。</blockquote> Peacock’s $4.99-per-month premium version is free to Comcast pay-TV and broadband customers and is also available to those of Cox Communications Inc.<blockquote>Peacock每月4.99美元的高级版本对康卡斯特付费电视和宽带客户免费，考克斯通信公司的客户也可以使用。</blockquote> The potential overseas partnership with ViacomCBS could involve both Peacock and the U.K.-based Sky, one of the people familiar with the matter said.<blockquote>一位知情人士表示，与ViacomCBS的潜在海外合作伙伴关系可能涉及Peacock和英国Sky。</blockquote> ViacomCBS said in May that the company now has 35.9 million subscribers to its streaming services, which include Paramount+, Showtime and BET+. The company said that its ad-supported PlutoTV service had 49.5 million monthly active users and that its total streaming revenue reached $816 million in the third quarter.<blockquote>ViacomCBS在5月份表示，该公司目前拥有3590万流媒体服务订阅者，其中包括Paramount+、Showtime和BET+。该公司表示，其广告支持的PlutoTV服务拥有4950万月活跃用户，第三季度流媒体总收入达到8.16亿美元。</blockquote> Before ViacomCBS launched Paramount+, Comcast floated the idea of the companies joining forces on streaming, the Journal reported. Viacom wasn’t interested at the time.<blockquote>据《华尔街日报》报道，在维亚康姆哥伦比亚广播公司推出派拉蒙+之前，康卡斯特提出了两家公司在流媒体领域联手的想法。维亚康姆当时并不感兴趣。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/comcast-ceo-brian-roberts-and-viacomcbs-chairman-shari-redstone-met-to-discuss-streaming-partnership-11626743478?mod=business_lead_pos4\">The Wall Street Journal</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09086":"华夏纳指-U","CMCSA":"康卡斯特","03086":"华夏纳指"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/comcast-ceo-brian-roberts-and-viacomcbs-chairman-shari-redstone-met-to-discuss-streaming-partnership-11626743478?mod=business_lead_pos4","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107114581","content_text":"Late June meeting also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish; focused on potential to join forces in international markets.\n\nComcast Corp.Chief Executive Brian Roberts met withViacomCBSInc.Chairman Shari Redstone in recent weeks to discuss a potential streaming partnership for international markets, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign the media companies see opportunities to join forces.\nDuring the meeting, which was held around the end of June in New York, and which also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish, the executives discussed a variety of possible business partnerships that would allow the companies to enter non-U.S. markets together, the people said.\nThe partnership talks come as both Comcast and ViacomCBS are preparing to expand their streaming services in international markets.\nIn May, ViacomCBS said its Paramount+ service would be available in 45 markets by 2022. In April, Mr. Roberts said that Comcast was looking to strike partnerships with local programmers and distributors in overseas markets to boost Peacock, the service launched by its NBCUniversal division. Comcast’s Sky PLC unit in Europe also has a streaming operation.\nMedia companies across the industry are looking for ways to bolster their streaming services to better compete with giants such asNetflixInc.andWalt DisneyCo.’s Disney+. Bundling services together through commercial partnerships is one option.\nSome companies have chosen to strike mergers.Amazon.comInc.in May agreed to buy Hollywood studio MGM, andAT&TInc.isspinning off WarnerMedia, home to HBO Max, into a venture withDiscoveryInc.\nSome analysts on Wall Street view Comcast and Viacom aspotential candidates for a mergerat some point. Mr. Roberts has been scoping out potential acquisition targets for Comcast, including ViacomCBS, but has told people close to him hedoesn’t feel the need to seek a merger, The Wall Street Journal reported.\nAt an investor event in late May, Comcast Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanagh said, “We like the hand we have and M&A is not an answer…but we’ll obviously do what’s right for shareholders as time passes.”\nMs. Redstone, whose National Amusements Inc. has a roughly 80% voting stake in ViacomCBS, is open to a deal if a suitor comes along with a compelling offer, people close to her say. There would be potential roadblocks to a deal between Comcast and Viacom, including the possibility of pushback from regulators in Washington, analysts say.\nA commercial partnership could offer some of the benefits of a merger. Tech publication the Information earlier reported that Comcast and ViacomCBS were in contact aboutlaunching in some international markets.\nBoth Comcast and Viacom were relatively late to the streaming arena and now are trying to make headway both in the U.S. and abroad.\nNBCUniversal’s Peacock service has built a sizable audience for ad-supported programming but is trying to grow its subscription business substantially, people close to the company say. Comcast said in late April that Peacock had 42 million sign-ups. But fewer than 10 million consumers paid for the service as of May, the Journal previously reported.\nPeacock’s $4.99-per-month premium version is free to Comcast pay-TV and broadband customers and is also available to those of Cox Communications Inc.\nThe potential overseas partnership with ViacomCBS could involve both Peacock and the U.K.-based Sky, one of the people familiar with the matter said.\nViacomCBS said in May that the company now has 35.9 million subscribers to its streaming services, which include Paramount+, Showtime and BET+. The company said that its ad-supported PlutoTV service had 49.5 million monthly active users and that its total streaming revenue reached $816 million in the third quarter.\nBefore ViacomCBS launched Paramount+, Comcast floated the idea of the companies joining forces on streaming, the Journal reported. 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