{
  "id": 2205636,
  "title": "Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/charter-closes-its-34-5b-cox-acquisition-announced-in-may-2025",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T19:05:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/charter-communications-completes-cox-liberty-broadband-deal-1236677613/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“When Liberty first invested in Charter more than a decade ago, we saw an opportunity to build scale behind a great management team and operating model,\" said John Malone.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}