FCC Sets Up Charter/BHN/TWC Steering Committee

July 9, 2015 |Comm Daily Notebook®

The FCC assembled a steering committee and working team to oversee review of Charter Communications' buy of Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable. Heading the interbureau steering committee in docket 15-149 will be General Counsel Jonathan Sallet, with the committee including International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre, Media Bureau Chief Bill Lake, Wireless Bureau Chief Roger Sherman and Wireline Bureau Chief Matthew DelNero. Heading the working team will be Owen Kendler, on detail with the FCC Office of General Counsel from the Department of Justice, where he most recently was assistant chief of its Antitrust Division's Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section. The senior economist on the working team will be William Rogerson, former FCC chief economist. The working team will report to the steering committee.