IP: Ferree to Head FCC's Deal Review

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 01:49:35 -0500
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Ferree to Head FCC's Deal Review
>
> By Ted Hearn
> Multichannel News
> 11/1/2001 6:00:00 PM
>
> Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell named a
> nine-person team Thursday to lead the review of the proposed merger
> between EchoStar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Inc.
>
> Acting before the $25.8 billion merger proposal has been submitted,
> Powell announced that W. Kenneth Ferree, chief of the Cable Services
> Bureau and the future Media Bureau, would head the team to scrub a
> deal that would reduce the direct-broadcast satellite market from two
> major players to just one.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.tvinsite.com/multichannelnews/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=54406


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