The Watch List: This Week

Welcome to our weekly Watch List. A mashup of news and media-related developments that bear watching for how they’ll affect life and culture as we know it. If we find something not yet on your radar screen, all the better. 

Here’s what’s up for the week of June 20, 2016:

Altice USA Is Here

Altice and Cablevision agreed, in theory, to the New York Public Service Commission’s lengthy list of conditions to their merger and, since then, our SEC filing alerts have been going off nonstop. Now, the question on everyone’s minds is what happens to the stepchild of the marriage: The news itself.

FCC Wants More Gs

The Federal Communications Commission wants America to be the first country to the world to go 5G. That’s interesting, especially since about one-third of Americans have no broadband to begin with.

Look for news next month.

Will Snoopy Get A Pink Slip?

Come 2020, America’s most beloved Beagle may be told to take a walk.

That’s when the contract for MetLife’s loyal branding companion is up for renewal.

New minds at MetLife are already discussing less fuzzy options.