FCC Has Questions for Dish Concerning Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger

In order for the Federal Communications Commission to complete its review of the applications made by Comcast and Time Warner Cable to transfer control, we require information and data from other commercial wireline carriers against which the applicants compete. We request that DISH provide copies of any and all of its agreements with the following programming entities relating to video programming to be provided on DISH's Sling TV service, and all documents relating to each negotiation between DISH and such entities since January 1, 2013, contemplating such an agreement, regardless of whether the negotiations resulted in an agreement or informal agreement: A+E Networks, CBS Corporation, Comcast Corporation, The American Broadcasting Company, The E.W. Scripps Company, and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. DISH should submit these materials no later than January 23, 2015.