Where would Charter/Time-Warner merger leave Comcast?
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The Time Warner Cable corporate logo is displayed at a company store, Tuesday, May 26, 2015 in New York. Charter Communications is buying Time Warner Cable for $55.33 billion. And executives say they're confident regulators will allow the creation of another U.S. TV and Internet giant. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Comcast could have some stiff competition.
The proposed $55 billion Charter Time-Warner deal would create a company with almost as many cable TV subscribers, and it appears likely to get the OK from FCC regulators. NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller talked about implcations of the deal with Kevin Werbach, Associate Professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton.
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This is a corrected post. A previous version incorrectly reported the merged Charter/Time-Warner would be larger than Comcast.
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