Introducing a New Wave of Consolidation in the Modern Cable Industry

Earlier this month, on the 13th February 2014, Comcast announced an agreement to acquire Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal worth over $45 billion, leaving the two companies' financial advisers standing to make between $50-75 million each on both sides. Marking a new wave of consolidation in the modern cable industry, the two behemoths share first and second places on the leaderboard of the top largest cable television providers in the USA. Not too long before the announcement, Charter Communications had been eyeing up Time Warner Cable. ..»