AT&T and Time Warner Still Trying To Sidestep FCC Scrutiny of Merger

AT&T and Time Warner say they have a plan to avoid a Federal Communications Commission review of their pending merger. From a report on Ars Technica: An FCC review would be necessary if Time Warner transfers any FCC licenses to AT&T, but Time Warner might get rid of any such licenses before the deal is finished. "Time Warner has conducted a review of all licenses that it holds that are granted by the FCC," AT&T said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. "While subject to change, it is currently anticipated that Time Warner will not need to transfer any of its FCC licenses to AT&T in order to continue to conduct its business operations after the closing of the transaction." "Time Warner has been looking to transfer or sell its licenses to another broadcaster for some time, according to a person familiar with the matter. "Time Warner can contract with third parties instead of owning the licenses, the person said."

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[sexconker]

Let stores that aren't shit take their place?

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[ArmoredDragon]

It's not that the stores are shit, it's that nobody really cares for department stores like they used to.

And in the grand scheme of things, those kind of stores were basically a fad. Before the mid 60's, people mostly bought stuff from mail order catalogues, only opting for department stores after freight became a thing and it became cheaper to ship mass quantities of goods to more areas than just big cities, and people naturally prefer to see and try things before buying them. However now that shipping to

Re:Simple... TRUMP IT!

[nehumanuscrede]

Trump has already made the statement that he will kill the merger if he can.

He understands, all too well, that such a thing would put too much power into the hands of too few.

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[buss_error]

You know, Trump says a lot of things, and some of them are even true.

If President Elect Trump said water was wet, fire burns, and the sun rises in the East, I wouldn't take his word for it. It's nothing unusual, I don't take any politicians word for anything but Mr. Trump does seem to me to be more factually challenged than the normal run of fat cat, self serving, self aggrandizing politicians.

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[guises]

It's because he's an outsider. I know people like to say that politicians are scheming, lying, egomaniacs (SLEs) (they like to say this because politicians are SLEs), but being a politician doesn't mean that you're the biggest SLE around. Think about where he comes from: real estate and reality television.

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[Agripa]

Trump has already made the statement that he will kill the merger if he can.

He understands, all too well, that such a thing would put too much power into the hands of too few.

Is that his public position or his private position?

Err, never mind. I was thinking of Hillary.

Trump has been ambiguous on big telecoms

[Tablizer]

These co's are just probing the swamp...I mean waters.

Ambiguous?

[rsilvergun]

he's made it painfully clear [washingtonpost.com] that he'll OK any merger that crosses his desk. As always his twitter feed tells whatever story he thinks people want to hear this week though.

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[turkeydance]

TWAT-CT

Found their actual plan!

[WillAffleckUW]

1. Declare both ATT and Time Warner are exporting jobs to Mexico.
2. Have Trump tweet about that at 3 am on orders from Russia.
3. "Give in" by saying they will keep jobs in America by merging their companies
5. PROFIT!

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[desdinova 216]

you forgot 3.5 ???