AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said his company is prepared to go to court to fight demands from the Justice Department that it sell assets as a condition for acquiring Time Warner.
Speaking at a New York Times Dealbook conference Thursday (Nov. 9), said he didn’t want to discuss what went on in AT&T’s meeting with the Justice Department Monday.
Reportedly, the Justice Department said AT&T would have to sell Time Warner’s Turner division, which includes CNN, or its own DirecTV unit in order to get the acquisition approved.
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But Stephenson said he has not been told that selling CNN would be the price of getting the deal approved. And he reiterated that he has never offered to sell CNN, according to Seeking Alpha.
“Selling CNN Makes no sense” in a business built on mobile connectivity, he added.
