article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday night, the government emerged that Federal Communications regulators decided that merger wasn't in the public interest and threw up a regulatory roadblock that would have bogged this deal down for months and may have killed this deal entirely.
article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday night, the Wall Street Journal revealed that FCC regulators questioned whether the creation of mega-size TV and internet provider was in the public interest.
article_snippet.sent: Staffers reportedly planned to recommend that an administrative law judge review the deal - a regulatory obstacle that is likely to cost both companies several months of hearings and many millions of dollars.
article_snippet.sent: an administrative law judge review the deal - a regulatory obstacle that is likely to cost both companies several months of hearings and many millions of dollars were likely to draw the companies past the merger deadline, at the very least.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Brian Stelter reports that some inside the companies past the merger deadline were talking about the deal in the past tense almost immediately after the FCC decision. '
highlights_snippet.sent: FCC staffers recommended Merger between two largest cable companies be sent to a judge for review - a significant regulatory hurdle .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Regulators questioned whether merger was in the public interest .