FCC Restarts Clock On Mergers and Establishes Dates for Respective Pleading Cycles

On October 3 and 22, 2014 respectively, the Federal Communications Commission stopped the informal 180-day clock and suspended the pleading cycle in the Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DIRECTV merger proceedings. The FCC is now restarting the informal 180 day clock in both proceedings as of today, December 3, 2014. The clock for the AT&T-DIRECTV merger proceeding is reset to Day 70. The clock for the Comcast-Time Warner Cable proceeding is restarted at Day 85.


FCC Restarts Clock On Mergers and Establishes Dates for Respective Pleading Cycles