Tag: DOJ
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Federal Judge Approves DOJ’s Move to End Decades-Old Movie Theater Antitrust Rules
This week, a federal judge gave a thumbs up to a Department of Justice effort to terminate what’s become known as the Paramount Consent Decrees — a set of antitrust rules and regulations that have been in place since the 1940s. The decrees essentially barred major movie studios at the time from also owning movie theaters,…
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The DOJ is Investigating Comcast Over its Dispute With Starz
Back in August Cord Cutters News first reported that Comcast planned to move some channels including Starz to more expensive packages. Now this has happened as Comcast has removed Starz from some of its bundles. This is not the end of the story as Comcast and Starz still need to reach a new deal or…
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United States Appeals Court Again Approves AT&T’s Deal to Buy Time Warner
This morning U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that AT&T’s $85.4 billion bid was legal, and imposed no conditions on the merger. This is a major blow to the Department of Justice who had appealed hoping to overturn an earlier ruling in an effort to at least impose some conditions on the merger. The Department of…
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The DOJ Just Approved a Merger Between Two of the Biggest Broadcast TV Companies in the United States
This week the Department of Justice approved a merger between Gray Television and Raycom with a few stipulations: they need to sell a few stations. With the acquisition, Raycom Media Gray Television will become the third-largest owner of broadcast TV stations in the United States. The new company will own 142 full-power television stations in…
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Pressure is Mounting For The DOJ to Probe Comcast Over Antitrust Violations
Last week the American Cable Association (ACA) a lobbying group for midsize cable operators, sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding an investigation into Comcast over alleged antitrust violations committed by Comcast. The ACA says Comcast has already violated antitrust laws repeatedly by allegedly exerting price pressure along with withholding “must-have” programming from local…
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The DOJ’s Appeal of the AT&T/Time Warner Merger Gets a Date in Court
Last year the DOJ had called on AT&T and Time Warner to sell all or part of the Turner Broadcasting Group—the group of cable networks that includes CNN—or to sell off DIRECTV and keep the cable networks as a potential requirement for approving the pending deal. After AT&T refused, the DOJ sued to block the…
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The FCC Says the Court Made an Error in Approving AT&T/Time Warner Merger
This week the Federal Communications Commission came out in support of the Department of Justice’s attempt to reverse the AT&T/Time Warner merger. The FCC filed a court briefing supporting the DOJ’s attempt to overturn the approval of the AT&T/Time Warner merger this week. “While the Commission takes no position on the relevance of any document…
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The DOJ Is Considering Appealing the AT&T/Time Warner Merger
A few weeks ago, a federal judge approved the AT&T/Time Warner merger over the objections of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Almost immediately AT&T closed on the deal and launched AT&T Watch TV. Now, according to a Fox Business report, the DOJ is reportedly looking into appealing the ruling in hopes of overturning the merger…
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A US Federal Judge Has Approved The AT&T-Time Warner Merger
The AT&T-Time Warner antitrust trial finally has a ruling after the trial ended last month. Last year The Department of Justice had called on AT&T and Time Warner to sell all or part of the Turner Broadcasting Group—the group of cable networks that includes CNN—or to sell off DIRECTV and keep the cable networks as…
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The Time Warner-AT&T Ruling is Expected Tomorrow
The AT&T-Time Warner antitrust trial has came to a close last month now it looks like we will have a ruling tomorrow. AT&T is hoping that the judge will approve their merger with Time Warner but The Department of Justice is hoping the judge will block the deal unless certain conditions are met. The Department…