{"id":61245,"date":"2018-06-13T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=61245"},"modified":"2018-06-13T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:17:00","slug":"att-applauds-court-approval-of-time-warner-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=61245","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Applauds Court Approval of Time Warner Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX&#8230;The following statement should be attributed to David McAtee, AT&#038;T General Counsel:  \u201cWe are pleased that, after conducting a full and fair trial on the merits, the Court has categorically rejected the government\u2019s lawsuit to block our merger with Time Warner. We thank the Court for its thorough and timely examination of the evidence, and we compliment our colleagues at the Department of Justice on their dedicated representation of the government.  We look forward to closing the merger on or before June 20 so we can begin to give consumers video entertainment that is more affordable, mobile, and innovative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw-570x260.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw-360x165.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX&#8230;The following statement should be attributed to David McAtee, AT&#038;T General Counsel: \u201cWe are pleased that, after conducting a full and fair trial on the merits, the Court has categorically rejected the government\u2019s lawsuit to block our merger with Time Warner. We thank the Court for its thorough and timely examination of the evidence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/946_432_newsroom_release_tw.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}