Comcast Makes Its Public Interest Case to Washington

Filing concentrates on broadband where critics most likely to focus

Those print and TV ads Comcast has been running in the Washington media promoting the benefits of its $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable? That was just a warm-up for the media giant's full court press, which began in earnest with the company's public interest statement filed Tuesday at 10 a.m. with the Federal Communications Commission. The move comes just a week after it filed its Hart-Scott Rodino notification with the Department of Justice.

Along with the 650-page FCC filing, Comcast's evp and unofficial top lobbyist David Cohen, who appeared on C-Span's The Communicators two weeks ago, also posted a lengthy blog entry on the company's website.

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