Time Warner Cable CEO Admits Closing Charter Merger in 2015 ‘Feels Ambitious’

The companies involved are all eager to get this thing done, though the FCC isn’t in quite the same rush

Let’s get a move on, FCC.

That was the message Time Warner Cable chairman and CEO Rob Marcus had for the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday during the cable provider’s third quarter 2015 investor call. Of course, Marcus expressed his eagerness to move forward with his company’s acquisition by Charter Communications in a gentler way than that.

“I’m not terribly good on predicting when regulators will act on our deals,” Marcus told market analysts this morning.

But most states that the companies need have approved the merger, as have the key local franchises, he added.

Marcus hopes the FCC “will begin to engage in earnest” towards buttoning this thing up in a matter of weeks. “Beyond that, hard to say,” he said.

Either way, his TWC is putting itself in a position to close as early this year — though Marcus admitted that a 2015 finalization “feels ambitious” at this point.

In May, Charter Communications announced it was buying Time Warner Cable for $78.7 billion.

Marcus was pleased with his company’s Q3 financial results, which readers can check out here.

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