Parents Television Council now Supporting Charter/TWC/BHN
The Parents Television Council is throwing its weight behind Charter Communications' buy of Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable. PTC -- which had opposed Comcast's failed attempt at buying TWC -- last fall called for conditions on the New…
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Charter deals (see 1511030024). Since then, PTC said in an FCC filing Friday in docket 15-149, it has spoken with executives at different independent, family-friendly cable programmers and also read comments in the docket about Charter "which affirm [it] has been a good partner to family friendly programmers such as Hallmark, INSP, Ovation, RFD, UP and ASPiRE." Charter's demonstrated support of carriage of such programming, and the presumption New Charter executives will continue that policy, indicates "a combined Charter/TWC/Bright House entity would better serve the public interest than the status quo of existing, independent corporate entities," PTC said.