Comcast-Time Warner Merger Faces State-Level Investigation

Florida and other US states will join the Justice Department in seeking to determine if Comcast's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable is legal under US antitrust law.

"We are part of a multistate group reviewing the proposed transaction along with the US DOJ (Justice Department) Antitrust Division," the Florida state attorney general's office said. It was not known how many states had joined the task force. Separately, Indiana officials were also looking at the deal to determine "the potential impact in Indiana."

Erin Reece, a spokeswoman for the Indiana attorney general's office, did not indicate if Indiana was part of the multistate group. The attorneys general group is focused on broadband rather than cable in assessing the $45.2 billion deal, according to a source familiar with the effort who was not authorized to speak on the record.