A Quick Primer on the FCC’s “Public Interest” Merger Review Authority…
Posted on byAs we all know by now, Comcast announced that it would be acquiring Time Warner in a deal worth about $45.2 billion. Given the high profile of this acquisition, I thought I would use this opportunity to highlight once again the ample case law on the bounds of the Federal Communications Commission’s “public interest” merger review authority. (For a full exegesis, please see my law review Separating Politics from Policy in FCC Merger Reviews: A Basic Legal Primer of The “Public Interest” Standard, 18 CommLaw Conspectus 329 (2010) which is available on the Phoenix Center’s webpage here.) First, FCC merger Continue Reading »