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Appeals court throws out FCC's order to reveal contracts

May 08, 2015 11:37 AM ETAT&T Inc. (T) StockDIS, VIA-OLD, T, VIAB, FOXA, FOX, PARABy: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor9 Comments
  • A suit that might have slowed down progress on the review of AT&T's (NYSE:T) purchase of DirecTV (NYSE:DTV) has wrapped, with the court throwing out the FCC's order for media companies to disclose their pay-TV programming contracts.
  • The agency had asked for the disclosures in connection with their reviews of that deal and of Comcast's now-failed bid for Time Warner Cable, but major content companies including CBS, Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) and Viacom (VIA, VIAB) argued the results would cause "irreparable harm" to their negotiating strategies.
  • The FCC's order was found "substantially and procedurally flawed." The resolution removes yet another hurdle between AT&T and DirecTV.
  • Previously: With Comcast-TWC done, federal suit likely focuses on AT&T-DirecTV (Apr. 24 2015)

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