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Comcast Corp. has made it public that it has agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for around $45.2 billion in stock, or $158.82 per share, in a deal that would join the countries top two cable TV companies.

The merger will make Comcast a huge force in the market in terms of both creating and delivering entertainment into American homes. The merger was approved by the boards of both companies and is expected to be finished by the end of the year.

The deal comes after Time Warner Cable just turned down a $60bn bid from Charter Communications last month. The merger will most likely face scrutiny from US regulators, but probably not enough to stop the deal from going through.

Comcast already has 22 million subscribers, while Time Warner Cable has 11 million. The new company will have more than 30 million subscribers when the merger is finished. Comcast is arguing that because Time Warner Cable serve different markets, the merger will not reduce competition for consumers.

Comcast is centered mainly in the northeast. Its bigger markets are Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and Chicago. Time Warner Cable is centered around New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Milwaukee.

In many areas, the cable company will face competition from AT&T and Verizon.

The merger would give Comcast unprecedented gatekeeper power in several markets, turning it into the bully in the schoolyard and enabling it to put the squeeze on content companies.

The biggest winners will of course be the US consumer who will face higher prices, weak Wi-Fi signals and slow data speeds. Sounds like a win-win situation. No?

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Ten pharmaceutical companies from the U.S. and Europe have formed a nonprofit to accelerate the development of new drugs. The organization, TransCelerate BioPharma, will be headquartered in Philadelphia. The founding companies are Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Roche Holding AG’s Genentech, and Sanofi SA.

InBalance Health, a company that provides doctor-formulated, alternative food bar and supplement solutions for prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes patients, has announced its launch and new healthy snack products. The company’s INbars are allergen-free and offer whole food nutrients, and are also useful for people with weight-loss or glucose management goals.

Novo Nordisk has been ranked in the top 10 of healthcare companies in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Global 500 2012 report. Compared to 2011, Novo Nordisk improved its score by 1 to 90 out of 100. According

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A special investigative report by Reuters showed that the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department is conducting a federal investigation on a California radio company that is reportedly backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government.

Reuters reports that G&E Studio Inc., a Los Angeles-based company, is 60 percent owned by a subsidiary of China Radio International, a Chinese state-run broadcaster based in Beijing. The California radio firm is owned by James Su, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Shanghai.

The FCC monitors indecency and political advertising in news content but otherwise does not restrict content broadcast on U.S. radio stations. By U.S. law, foreign governments or their representatives are not allowed to own more than 25% of a station’s U.S. parent corporation without FCC approval.

In a Sept. 16 interview, Su said that he is merely a businessman and not an agent of China. “Our U.S. audience and our U.S. public has the choice,” Su said. “They can choose to listen or not listen. I think this is an American value.”

Su also argued that the company is not doing anything illegal since it does not own any U.S. radio stations, but only leases air time from two radio stations.

G&E Studio Inc. broadcasts over 14 different cities in the U.S., including Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and San Francisco. There are at least 33 radio stations in 14 countries in CRI’s global network.

Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the U.S. requires anyone seeking to influence U.S. public opinion on behalf of foreign agents to register with the Justice Department. However, neither Su nor his companies are registered.

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Charter Communications has cleared a final regulatory hurdle in its nearly year-long quest to clinch its $71-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. California Public Utilities Commission members on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the transfer of phone licenses, a blessing needed by Charter to complete the merger of three cable companies. Charter is expected to finalize the Time Warner Cable and Bright House transactions next week, and then work to consolidate its cable systems nationwide. The Federal Communications Commission approved the deal last week after attaching several conditions aimed at expanding the availability of broadband Internet to begin to close the so-called digital divide. The FCC also won a pledge from Charter that it would not try to thwart the development of video streaming services. Charter will become the largest Internet service and pay-TV provider in Southern California with more than 2 million customer homes.  It also will become a major provider in New York, Dallas and parts of Florida.“We are pleased to have now obtained all approvals,” Charter Chief Executive Tom Rutledge said in a statement. “We look forward to closing these transactions next week and to begin delivering the many benefits of these transactions to consumers.” California PUC members applauded Charter for agreeing to lay cable lines in some geographic regions without lines and for establishing a program to offering affordable Internet service for low-income families with children and low-income seniors.Charter also committed  to rolling out higher Internet speeds to its customer base, a pledge embraced by several PUC members.
“This is going to be critical for economic development in this state,” Commissioner Carla J. Peterman said during Thursday’s PUC meeting, which was held in Sacramento.Peterman noted that Charter was more cooperative than was the Philadelphia cable company, Comcast Corp. , which failed last year in its push to purchase of Time Warner Cable after it ran into a regulatory buzzsaw.”I expect Charter to live up to the agreements and be a good corporate citizen in California for years to come,” Commissioner Mike Florio said Thursday.State and federal reviews sought to address the so-called digital divide, recognizing the Connecticut company was poised to become the nation’s second-largest high-speed Internet provider, behind Comcast. See the most-read stories this hour >> Federal regulators tailored several conditions to address Charter’s rising Internet clout — requiring Charter to expand broadband service in areas with spotty service and to sign up poor families who cannot afford Internet service. Charter pledged to provide low-cost Internet service to at least 525,000 low-income homes nationwide.In addition, Charter agreed not to impose data caps on its customers nor institute usage-based fee structures for at least three years.Another provision would require Charter to comply with the FCC’s Open Internet rules that require Internet service providers to all treat traffic equally.In the state of California, Charter will be obligated to build at least 150,000 new line extensions in California and bring broadband service to regions, such as in San Bernardino County, that currently have areas that lack coverage.”There is an absolute imperative in closing the digital divide,” community activist Larry Ortega from Pomona told PUC members in Sacramento. “Right now, there are 2 million children in California without Internet access.”Ortega said that Charter’s proposal to provide affordable Internet service did not go far enough to meet pressing needs in Southern California.As part of the federal requirements, Charter also was tasked with providing 1 million new Internet connections in areas where other high-speed operators deliver service in an effort to encourage more competition. See more of our top stories on Facebook >> MORE COMPANY TOWN NEWS NFL expands deal with YouTube Songkick suffers a setback in its legal battle with Ticketmaster ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Morley Safer is retiring from CBS News meg.james@latimes.com Follow me on Twitter: @MegJamesLAT

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