{"id":48448,"date":"2015-05-26T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48448"},"modified":"2015-05-26T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:58:18","slug":"charter-agrees-to-buy-time-warner-for-55-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/charter-agrees-to-buy-time-warner-for-55-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Charter Agrees to Buy Time Warner for $55 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC &#8211; The broadband battle heated up on Tuesday when Charter Communications said it agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $55 billion, in a deal that would combine the second- and third-largest U.S. cable providers and create a more formidable rival to Comcast.<\/p>\n<p>Charter will pay $195 a share for Time Warner in a cash and stock deal. The transaction will include a $2 billion breakup fee. Charter also announced it would acquire Bright House Networks, the sixth largest U.S. cable company, for $10.4 billion. The combined companies could have as many as 23 million total customers, just behind Comcast&#8217;s 27.2 million customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/charter-agrees-buy-time-warner-55-billion-n364501\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC &#8211; The broadband battle heated up on Tuesday when Charter Communications said it agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $55 billion, in a deal that would combine the second- and third-largest U.S. cable providers and create a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48452,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48448\/revisions\/48452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}