Charter’s battle over the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger is heating up as the Senate Judiciary Committee readies to tackle the $45bln deal on April 9. In an SEC filing Fri, Charter urged TWC shareholders to reject the deal as it faces significant uncertainty, including regulatory barriers. And before Charter’s filing, Comcast evp David Cohen defended the deal during C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” program. Of course, Charter has a different take.

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Peering agreements, or interconnection agreements, like the one Comcast just signed with Netflix, has nothing to do with access to the Internet, Comcast evp David Cohen said. More from Cohen on net neutrality.
 
Viacom and Cable One continues to negotiate, trying to reach a carriage deal before the current contract expires today, Mar 31.
 
As part of ESPN’s coverage of the 25th MLB season (1st year of ESPN’s 8-year deal with MLB), the net is rebranding the Sunday Night Baseball pregame edition of “Baseball Tonight.” More details on ESPN’s MLB coverage here.

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For a conference called SCTE TechExpo25, there’s going to be quite a lot of policy talk.

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