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Tim McElgan is with B&A. Bloomberg B&A, they write wonderfully acute reports on things.

His thing is Mike McKee, I don't know about your house, but cable TV observation in the keen household has changed.

Tim McGelgen here on the future cable and broadband. Tim the immovable

force is I observe people watching less TV is that actually happening

uh... well it depends on how you define TV right so

uh... if your teenagers upstairs uh... streaming upstairs streaming HBO onto their laptop is that watching TV

I would argue that yes it is. So how people are watching TV is changing greatly

but I think in fact if you do the measurements, the number of hours

watching what we would typically or historically consider TV content is probably up considerably.

What is the future of cable now that we've seen the Time Warner deal completed?

Do we see any other deals or the company's just getting too large now

that the Justice Department wouldn't let us go there?

Well, you know, I said they'd never let 18-T reform so I've been around before but I think really what we've seen

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