At this time last year, the powerful cable industry seemed to be at the top of its game. An appeals court, in January 2014, had chucked out the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to establish net neutrality rules, and a month later, in February, the two biggest cable companies in the country, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, announced a massive, $45.2 billion merger. Meanwhile, the industry’s powerful influence machine, led in part by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, was working overtime in the nation’s capital.
Cable’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
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Fri, 04/24/2015 - 9:32am
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