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You know, at the end of the day, it's like you can have the best intentions, and if you're not funny, if you're not entertaining,

if people don't care about these characters, they're not going to come back, and then you're like a noble failure.

You know, and nobody wanted that.

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Then a Hollywood trainer tells how she turned two troublemaking trailer park puppies into

super dogs worthy of a Sundance debut.

But first on the news banter, Comcast bid for Time Warner Cable dies,

and Tom Cruise Wows theater owners gathered in Las Vegas for a peek at upcoming movies.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my banter buddy, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hi, Matt. Hi there.

So, Matt, the big news in the media world, and it is big news, is that Comcast is giving up, has given up on its $45 billion proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable.

The company had tried to make an argument that this would be good for the consumer.

A lot of consumer groups and a lot of cable companies, and a lot of people just did not buy it at all.

Thought it would give Comcast way too much power.

And it's striking to me that the federal government rebuffed this attempt, even though Comcast has really given a lot of money to Obama and spent a lot of money on lobbying.

I think you can buy City Hall, maybe, but in this case, you can't.

The tide seemed to turn in the last couple of months when a lot of these groups came out and said, you know, this is actually horrible for consumers. This is putting so much power in a marketplace

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