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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AT&T INC. et al

  1. April 19, 2018

    DOJ Slams DirecTV Bid To Exit AT&T-Time Warner Tie-Up Suit

    The U.S. Department of Justice hit back Thursday against DirecTV's bid to escape the suit challenging its parent company AT&T's planned purchase of Time Warner, telling a D.C. federal court that the satellite provider is a major part of why the deal is under fire.

  2. April 18, 2018

    Leverage Doesn't Solve Problems, Time Warner CEO Says

    AT&T's proposed purchase of Time Warner has nothing to do with gaining "leverage" over rival pay-TV providers and everything to do with tackling the real challenges facing modern television programmers, Time Warner's CEO said in D.C. federal court Wednesday in a step-by-step attack on the U.S. government's merger challenge.

  3. April 18, 2018

    DirecTV Looks To Exit AT&T-Time Warner Merger Fight

    Satellite service provider DirecTV asked a D.C. federal court on Tuesday to dismiss it from the U.S. Department of Justice suit challenging AT&T's planned purchase of Time Warner, arguing that it has no business being in the case since it's a wholly owned subsidiary of the buyer.

  4. April 17, 2018

    AT&T-Time Warner Will Hurt Small Cable Providers, CEO Says

    A small cable company's CEO warned Tuesday in D.C. federal court that he's already seen one merger between a pay-TV distributor and a television programmer impose competitively detrimental contract terms, and the same could happen with the merger between AT&T and Time Warner being challenged by the U.S. government.

  5. April 16, 2018

    AT&T-Time Warner Expert Defends Turner Arbitration Offer

    Excluding Turner Broadcasting's offer to arbitrate pricing disputes, and swear off content blackouts, was a "fatal error" by the U.S. Department of Justice's economist, an expert witness for Time Warner and AT&T said Monday in D.C. federal court, arguing the offer undoes DOJ concerns of increased pay-TV prices from the companies' merger.

  6. April 13, 2018

    The DOJ's Case Against AT&T-Time Warner By The Numbers

    Like its chief expert witness who testified Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice has built its antitrust challenge to AT&T's $85 billion quest for Time Warner around numbers, culminating in hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged consumer television subscription price increases the government says the merger will create.

  7. April 12, 2018

    AT&T-Time Warner Expert Says DOJ Has 'No Statistical Basis'

    AT&T and Time Warner sought Thursday to eviscerate every part of the economics of the U.S. Department of Justice challenge against their merger in D.C. federal court, presenting their own expert witness to systemically criticize virtually every conclusion, and every unconsidered variable, to come from his counterpart.

  8. April 11, 2018

    Judge Challenges DOJ Expert On AT&T Control 'Assumption'

    The D.C. federal judge overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust challenge to the AT&T-Time Warner merger asked the government's key expert pointed questions Wednesday on his assumptions that AT&T would influence Time Warner content negotiations, citing defense arguments that those negotiations are conducted independently.

  9. April 10, 2018

    Pay-TV 'Sticks Together,' DOJ Says In AT&T-Time Warner Row

    The U.S. Department of Justice recalled AT&T's chief content officer to the stand Tuesday in D.C. federal court to confront him with another damaging communication against the AT&T-Time Warner merger, this time in which he discussed pay-TV distributors banding together against a content provider.

  10. April 09, 2018

    AT&T Doesn't Want To 'Cannibalize' Satellite TV, DOJ Says

    AT&T may be expanding into online live television, but the U.S. Department of Justice put an executive from its DirecTV subsidiary on the stand Monday to show that after a merger with Time Warner, the combined company could use its newly acquired online leverage to protect its satellite service and eliminate competition from internet-delivered programming.

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