
John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media, the dominant shareholder of Charter Communications, reportedly called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days about a friendly merger following the collapse last week of an offer by Comcast to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. Malone and Marcus appear be discussing a 3-way merger that would challenge Comcast’s industry dominance.
by Chriss W. Street4 May 2015, 4:50 AM PST0

The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.
by Chriss W. Street26 Mar 2015, 12:00 PM PST0

An African-American media group has filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast and Time Warner just ahead of their proposed merger.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Feb 2015, 9:46 PM PST0