Now that the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Has Been Scuttled....
how much more Comcast money is going to flood into the 2016 elections?
<....> The decision comes amid intense, possibly insurmountable scrutiny of the deal by government regulators. Comcast's plan is being finalized on Thursday, and it may be announced on Friday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
<...> The collapse of the merger, first reported by Bloomberg News on Thursday afternoon, came one day after a series of meetings between the cable companies and government officials. The officials shared a long list of reservations about the proposed combination of two cable and broadband companies and indicated they may take action to block it.
In the wake of the meetings, some of the parties involved started to talk about the proposed deal in the past tense. <...> CNN
Try to imagine a repub administration making this merger uncomfortable enough for Comcast and TW to talk away from it...and try to imagine how much Comcast is willing to pay to have unfettered access to an even greater share of the market.
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