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A February 13, 2014 Comcast press release announced \\u201cTime Warner Cable\\xa0to Merge with Comcast Corporation to Create a World-Class Technology\\xa0and Media Company\\u201d and went on to say \\u201cStrategic Combination Will Accelerate Delivery of Comcast\\u2019s Technologically Advanced Products and Services to Time Warner Cable\\u2019s Customers,\\u201d and \\u201cTransaction Creates Multiple Pro-Consumer and Pro-Competitive Benefits.\\u201d

Outside the Comcast and Time Warner corporate offices, there were different characterizations of what would result if the biggest cable company merged with the second biggest.

On the March 6, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, Matt Wood, Policy Director with Free Press\\xa0got on the phone to talk about some of the issues related to this proposed merger.

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