{"id":9242,"date":"2018-07-20T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:50","slug":"net-neutrality-fuels-media-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/net-neutrality-fuels-media-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Net neutrality fuels media mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, the Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T\u2019s acquisition of Time Warner. In a recent article<\/a>,\u00a0Amanda Lotz<\/strong>, professor of media studies at U-M, predicts that these types of mergers will reshape the American media landscape, even more so because of the elimination of net neutrality. “The reason AT&T\u2019s purchase of Time Warner is so significant is that it allowed a major distribution company to purchase a large content company,” writes Lotz. But the\u00a0end of net neutrality\u00a0magnifies the impact of this deal because it allows internet service providers to charge for delivery prioritization. For example, AT&T will be able to treat its own content favorably \u2013 HBO won\u2019t have to pay to receive “fast-lane” access on AT&T\u2019s internet service \u2013 but AT&T will likely require competing services such as Netflix and Hulu to pay up, which will most likely lead higher subscriber fees. AT&T might also make HBO very expensive for those who do not receive its internet service in an effort to get subscribers to switch providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, the Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T\u2019s acquisition of Time Warner. In a recent article,\u00a0Amanda Lotz, professor of media studies at U-M, predicts that these types of mergers will reshape the American media landscape, even more so because of the elimination of net neutrality. “The reason AT&T\u2019s purchase of Time Warner is so\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,197,425],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-media","tag-net-neutrality"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-e1532713637749.jpg",600,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-125x94.jpg",125,94,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-267x200.jpg",267,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-768x576.jpg",665,499,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-700x525.jpg",600,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-e1532713637749.jpg",600,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-e1532713637749.jpg",600,450,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-665x499.jpg",665,499,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/big_fish-e1532713637749.jpg",333,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last month, the Department of Justice lost its suit to prevent AT&T\u2019s acquisition of Time Warner. In a recent article,\u00a0Amanda Lotz, professor of media studies at U-M, predicts that these types of mergers will reshape the American media landscape, even more so because of the elimination of net neutrality. “The reason AT&T\u2019s purchase of Time…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}