Regulators Recommend Approval of Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Federal regulators moved to approve Charter Communications Inc.’s $55 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc. but said the combined cable giant would have to live under several stringent conditions that single it out among industry rivals.

In separate statements, the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said the conditions would mitigate threats to online video competition posed by the merger, which will create the second-largest cable company after Comcast Corp., serving...

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