With news that AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, consumers across the country are facing the prospect of yet another media-conglomerate behemoth to spend hours waiting on the phone to contact. AT&T, the second-largest provider of cell-phone service and the largest U.S. pay-TV distributor in America, also provides internet service to 16.5 million Americans. Time Warner, the world’s third-largest media conglomerate, holds assets including TV channels like HBO and CNN, media properties like Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC Comics, and scores of smaller channels and properties (such as pretty much every NBA game broadcast).
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