Big media companies are opening their wallets wider and wider to lobby the federal government on issues in which the firms have a vested interest.
The biggest spender in the first quarter of this year was Comcast, which spent a whopping $5.7 million lobbying the government for the go-ahead to close its deal to acquire NBCUniversal. That's almost double the $3.1 million it spent on lobbying during the same period last year.
News Corp. is also high on the list.
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