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  "description": "Dennis Mathew urges FCC leader to require 'divestiture of Big-4 triopolies in a local market'\n",
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  "textContent": "💡\n\n■ Are Nexstar and TEGNA on the Same Page on When Deal Might Close? ■ Analyst Supino: PSky Might Need to Pay $7 Billion Breakup Fee ■ Swarztrauber: NTIA Needs BEAD Rainy Day Fund ■ Former FTC Democrat Slaughter Fears Corruption without Humphrey’s Executor ■ NAB Launches Campaign to Celebrate ‘America 250’ ****■**** NTIA’s Adam Cassady Nominated to Serve as Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy ■ British Airways to Roll Out Starlink in 2026 as Free Wi-Fi ■ Trump White House Insider Mike Davis Calls for Total Repeal of Sec. 230 ■ Sens. Welch, McCormick Offer Bipartisan Power Grid Reliability Bill ■ Cable TV Pioneers Accepting Nominations for 2026\n\n**Deal: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr** is giving face time to critics of the **$6.2 billion Nexstar-TEGNA merger** , a transaction he supports. According to a March 2 filing with the FCC, Carr met Feb. 26 with **Optimum Communications’ Board Chairman and CEO Dennis Mathew**. In January 2025, shortly before Carr became Chairman, Nexstar and Optimum had a bruising retransmission consent battle in which Optimum temporarily lost **63 Nexstar stations** in **42 cable markets**. In the Carr meeting Mathew floated a few merger conditions, including “requiring the merging parties to forgo enforcement of any automatic retransmission consent rate increases resulting from after-acquired station clauses, until existing contracts expire.” After-acquired clauses have annoyed cable and satellite TV operators for many years. ** _(More after paywall)_**\n\nOptimum Communications Board Chairman and CEO Dennis Mathew\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Optimum CEO Pitches FCC Chairman Carr on Nexstar-TEGNA Conditions",
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