FCC Adopts 'Protective Order Order' In Charter-TWC Merger Review Proceeding

摘要

The FCC has voted to adopt a protective order dealing with the treatment of confidential information submitted in the agency's review of the proposed merger transactions involving Charter Communications, Inc., Time Warner Cable, Inc., and Advance/Newhouse Partnership, which owns Bright House Networks. The matter involves contentious issues that led the FCC to court last year in CBS Corp. v. FCC when it tried to give access to video programming distribution agreements to third parties commenting on the then-pending AT&T, Inc.-Directv, Inc., merger and the since-abandoned proposal for Comcast Corp. to merge with Time Warner Cable.