{"id":140289,"date":"2018-06-12T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/judge-clears-att-takeover-of-time-warner\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:17:52","slug":"judge-clears-att-takeover-of-time-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/judge-clears-att-takeover-of-time-warner\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge clears AT&amp;T takeover of Time Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People walk by an AT&amp;T store in New York City, on May 11, 2018.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/3F6F\/production\/_101993261_gettyimages-957436152.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A US District Court judge has cleared the merger of telecoms giant AT&amp;T and media firm Time Warner, in a loss for government regulators.<\/p>\n<p>The US had sued to block the deal, arguing that it would reduce competition in pay TV and lead to higher prices for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Richard Leon rejected those arguments, approving the deal without conditions. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling is expected to unleash more deal-making.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit against AT&amp;T had cast a pall over that activity, as a sign that the Department of Justice, under new Trump appointees, was taking a more hard line stance to mega-deals.<\/p>\n<p>The opinion comes 20 months after AT&amp;T announced its plans to buy Time Warner in a transaction then worth almost $85bn.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is set to unite AT&amp;T&#039;s significant wireless, satellite television and internet business with Time Warner&#039;s media properties, which include HBO and CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/Getty A US District Court judge has cleared the merger of telecoms giant AT&amp;T and media firm Time Warner, in a loss for government regulators. The US had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}