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‘Insulted’ Comcast withdraws funding from FCC commissioner’s dinner

15
Aug
2014

You see what you did, you meanies? You insulted Comcast so much that it’s decided not to spend $110,000 sponsoring a dinner to honor an FCC commissioner who will hold significant influence over the fate of its merger with Time Warner Cable. Deadline Hollywood reports that Comcast, which earlier this week said it was “insulting” to think there was anything shady about spending that much money to honor one of the most important telecom regulators in the country, said that it’s withdrawing funding for the dinner and that it’s asking that “there be no recognition of Comcast at the dinner.” The dinner in question is part of an annual event held by the Walter Kaitz Foundation, at which FCC commissioner

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