Comcast, TWC pull sponsorship for dinner honoring Mignon Clyburn
August 14, 2014
Comcast and Time Warner Cable said they are withdrawing financial support for a dinner honoring Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a regulator who is reviewing the companies’ multibillion-dollar merger.
The two companies were both set to sponsor the Walter Kaitz Foundation Dinner in September -- at a cost of $110,000 for Comcast and $22,000 for Time Warner Cable -- where Commissioner Clyburn is set to receive the foundation’s “diversity advocate” award.
Both Comcast and Time Warner Cable said they will instead donate to the foundation at the same level in a more general capacity.
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