"It's rare for the FCC to seek an administrative hearing on merger deals like this. Holding such a hearing adds an additional layer of review and extends the time the agency looks at the deal. The last time the agency did this was in 2002 on the proposed merger of EchoStar and DirecTV. The companies eventually pulled the deal."

Hmmm: "Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who voted for the deal said on Wednesday that she would soon join Comcast’s Washington lobbying office"