Federal adjudicator approves AT&T-Time Warner merger
A federal adjudicator accustomed the $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T and Time Warner on Tuesday, potentially ushering in a beachcomber of media alliance while abstraction how abundant consumers pay for alive TV and movies. The Trump Justice Department had sued to block the $85 billion merger, arguing that it would aching antagonism in cable and digital TV and jack up costs to consumers for alive TV and movies. Now, the buzz and pay-TV behemothic AT&T will be accustomed to blot the buyer of CNN, HBO, the Warner Bros. cine studio, "Game of Thrones," coveted sports programming and added "must-see" shows. A accumulated AT&T-Time Warner could aswell get a addition from Monday's official end of net neutrality —the Obama-era rules that barred broadband and wireless companies from benign their own casework to the damage of rivals like Netflix.