Senators balk at big bird: Some maintain that combined EchoStar/DirecTV would violate Clayton Act. (Washington).(Brief Article)

From: Broadcasting & Cable | Date: March 11, 2002| Author: Albiniak, Paige | Copyright information

What song does an 800-pound canary sing? Anything it wants to. That appeared to be the concern of some senators who doubt that EchoStar Communications Corp.'s proposed $26 billion merger with Hughes Electronics, parent company of DirecTV, can pass antitrust muster.

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be highly skeptical of a merger that reduces competition in an industry and creates a monopoly in rural America," Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Antitrus...

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