Robert Pitofsky Merger Quotations

While the proposed merger of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting is one of the biggest and most complicated deals that antitrust officials have reviewed, the central issue it raises can be summarized in one word: access,

Although the merger of BP and Amoco involves companies of enormous size, and there is a significant trend toward concentration in the petroleum industry, the operations of these two companies rarely overlap in a way that threatens competition.

In the broad sense, our concern was that the merger of these two powerful companies would deny to competitors access to this amazing new broadband technology.