Excerpt: | Media and telecommunications conglomerate Comcast, the nation’s largest provider of cable television and the owner of NBC Universal, has just announced it has agreed to acquire the nation’s second largest cable television provider, Time Warner Cable, in a $44 billion plus all-stock megadeal. Bloomberg reports: Comcast is paying about $159 a share in the transaction, […] |
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Published at: | 8:19 PM on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Media & Culture |
Tags: | Media Consolidation |
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Daily Archives: February 12th, 2014
Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner Cable for $44 billion; FCC and DOJ should veto deal
U.S. Senate breaks Ted Cruz’s filibuster, joins House in voting to pay nation’s bills into 2015
Excerpt: | Well, that was fast. Less than a day after the United States House of Representatives voted to give the Department of the Treasury the authority to continue paying the nation’s bills into March 2015, the Senate followed suit, in the process breaking a filibuster staged by Tea Party darling Ted Cruz of Texas, who is upset […] |
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Published at: | 2:02 PM on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Economic Security, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility |
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Latest spat between Republicans in the Washington State Senate proves Rodney Tom’s “majority coalition” is a fiction