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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

I forgot that I could write my own screenplays, that I could create my own films.

I also forgot that there was a kind of cinema that I was interested in doing.

I was falling out of love with cinema.

Filmmaker Alfonso Quaron talks about overcoming that low point earlier in his career,

and how he managed the studio's anxieties during the many years it took to make gravity.

But first, on the Hollywood news banter, Comcast says it's going to acquire Time Warner Cable.

Will the feds let that happen?

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my partner in banter, John Horn, the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So a gigantic merger, potentially in the works, Comcast has announced that it will take over Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion. This would create an even bigger behemist in cable and broadband than it already is.

And of course, this is very polarizing. There's going to be a ton of controversy. Why don't you start to explain why?

First of all, cable companies already have regional monopolies. So this would create something of a national monopoly. The combined company

would have about 30 million subscribers. So even though there is no overlapping market right now

between Comcast and TimeWarrant cable, it would create a larger monopoly nationally.

So that's issue one.

Let me just pause for a second there because I love the fact that they said this is not anti-competitive

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