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Washington Post: Three things expected from Comcast-TWC merger hearing

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The Washington Post

“Three things to expect from Thursday’s Comcast-TWC merger hearing” by Brian Fung

#3:
Revisiting the NBC Universal merger: Allen Grunes, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer, is expected to say that the conditions that applied to Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal — such as a commitment to respect net neutrality and to help promote media diversity — won’t be enough to ensure adequate competition in a Comcast deal. “The most comprehensive study to date has shown that merger-specific regulation, like regulation as a whole, often does not work,” Grunes says in his prepared testimony.

Today 9:30 am: Allen Grunes Testimony Before House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law: Oversight Hearing on “Competition in the Video and Broadband Markets: The Proposed Merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable”

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Allen Grunes to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law:  Oversight Hearing on “Competition in the Video and Broadband Markets:  The Proposed Merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.”

Hearing date:  May 8, 2014 9:30 am

Link to live hearing: http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/live-video-feed

More information here: http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=301C520F-5B9E-4E43-B2B5-B131B3B88951

Allen Grunes comments on Comcast merger in Gigaom and Wall Street Journal’

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Everything you need to know about the proposed $45B Comcast-Time Warner merger

“Allen Grunes, an antitrust lawyer with GeyerGorey LLP, told the Wall Street Journal: ‘There’s very little political will right now in the U.S. to keep pipes and content separate, or to limit the national reach of a cable company like Comcast. My guess is that if Comcast is able to make some serious and enforceable commitments to the FCC, the deal will go through.'”