Comcast-Time Warner Merger Not Family-Friendly

A coalition of groups – Parents Television Council, Citizens for Community Values, American Decency Association, Morality in Media, Illinois Family Institute, American Family Association of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Janice Crouse (with the Beverly LaHaye Institute) – has filed joint comments with the FCC claiming the merger is not in the public’s best interest.

Dan Isett is director of public policy for the Parents Television Council, which argues the merger would result in just the opposite of what consumers want: greater choice. In addition, he says, the merger sets the stage for a raid against consumers.

“Comcast is already the biggest single cable and Internet broadband provider in the country – and it would merge with its second-biggest rival,” he summarizes. “So it would create a new company of literally unmatched market power.”

He further adds there is strength in numbers – and that’s why several major organizations have banded together on the issue.

“It’s really important that folks pay attention to these proceedings when they come up and weigh in when they can,” he notes. “It really does make a difference when citizens can participate in this process – because otherwise the only voices that get heard are the ones that are paid for by the industry itself.”

PTC contends there is a “clear, pro-consumer remedy” that the FCC could impose as a condition of the merger: require the unbundling of cable networks owned and distributed by the newly formed entity.

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