As per THR:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fcc-approves-charter-cox-merger-1236517800/


I, for one, am not looking forward to this. (Sidenote: And I find it
weird that Charter, the purchaser, is taking the name of Cox, the one
being bought...)

Though, let's face it - cable TV is dying either way.



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In <10ntin8$305og$1@dont-email.me> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> writes:

As per THR:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fcc-approves-charter-cox-merger-1236517800/

official FCC announement:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-approves-charter-cox-combination

(has links to the documentation, etc.)



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On 2026-02-28 02:08:40 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:

As per THR:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fcc-approves-charter-cox-merger-1236517800/

I, for one, am not looking forward to this. (Sidenote: And I find it
weird that Charter, the purchaser, is taking the name of Cox, the one
being bought...)

Though, let's face it - cable TV is dying either way.

That way of naming the new company sometimes happens, although not very often.

Some years ago here in New Zealand, there were two supermaket chains
called "Foodtown" and "Countdown" (as well as a couple of others). Then
the Foodtown company bought up the Countdown company, and slowly
changed all the store branding to "Countdown" - at one point there were
even two Countdown stores at opposite ends of the same shopping mall.
More recently Countdown has been bought up by Woolworths Australia, and
now all the stores have again been rebranded to to be "Woolworths".

In another way of doing things ... there used to be a fast food chain
here called "Georgie Pie" (sold mainly meat and fruit pies). Eventually
they were bought up by the McDonald's company and all the Georgie Pie
branches were either closed down or rebranded, and the Georgie Pie
products abandoned - McDonald's simply wanted the store locations. Some
years later McDonald's resurrected the "Georgie Pie" brand name for a
range of pies, supposedly the same recipes, sold in McDonald's
branches, but they were over-priced and so eventually discontinued
again.

There used to be a free-to-air TV company called "Prime TV" (long
before Amazon was around). After changing parent companies a few times,
it was eventually bought up by Sky TV, and they still run it as a
free-to-air channel under the new name "Sky Open".


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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

As per THR:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fcc-approves-charter-cox-merger-1236517800/

I, for one, am not looking forward to this. (Sidenote: And I find it
weird that Charter, the purchaser, is taking the name of Cox, the one
being bought...)

Though, let's face it - cable TV is dying either way.

Cox hasn?t worked in years. They should be forced out of business and the
ring leaders rounded up and tossed in jail.



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On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:27:39 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

As per THR:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fcc-approves-charter-cox-merger-1236517800/


I, for one, am not looking forward to this. (Sidenote: And I find it
weird that Charter, the purchaser, is taking the name of Cox, the one
being bought...)

Though, let's face it - cable TV is dying either way.

Cox hasn?t worked in years. They should be forced out of business and the >ring leaders rounded up and tossed in jail.

I have Spectrum and they do a semi-annual, $5 increase in the price like clockwork. i canceled cable tv some years ago because of the price so just have internet.

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