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Biggest subject on the fcc's plate. he will have an interesting question about whether he has to recuse himself. >> how is this likely to play out on consumers who want to pay their bills and watch cable tv including us here on cnn? >> cable bills have been going up anyway. that's unlikely to go in the opposite direction. comcast's big argument and all the pr they put out since the merger is that we are the best company for service and we offer the most innovative technology. we will be able to offer innovative technology to more and more people as a result. plus they say look, we are only 30%...

For cable tv subscribers. early this morning, comcast announced it's agreed to pay $45 billion to buy time warner cable and create the nation's largest cable provider. one analyst estimated that if this deal goes through, more than one-third of pay tv subscribers would get their service from comcast. christine romans is in new york following this story. i'm thinking that's not a good thing for consumers. >> well, carol, this would be a very big cable company. it would control about one-third of american households. most of those are in new york, los angeles, philadelphia, washington, d.c. now ...

Korea state news agency says kim visited a military command center christmas eve and told soldiers to be ready for combat at any time. also a japanese paper claims kim was very drunk when he ordered his uncle's execution. "the new york times" reported the two had a heated disagreement over exports. satellite tv subscribers are getting a lump of coal this christmas, big jump in their cable bills. oh, yea, alison kosik. >> it's funny. it's always around christmas, this tr trend that's been happening in recent years. almost every available package from the two satellite tv providers will increa...

Paycheck. >>steve: that's the part that has got us going what? how are they getting paid? >> it has to do with different funding. appropriated fund versus nonappropriated fund. inmates' funds come off inmate sales off their commissary through what call the a trust base system. >>steve: inmates still get paid, can still watch table tv whereas your members are wondering how they're going to pay their cable bills; correct? >> that is correct. government workers who go to work every day to protect society from these criminals, they don't know when their next paycheck is going to be. they still hav...

The real estate market is also hot. a hot drama going on with cbs and time warner cable. time warner cable briefly blocking out cbs overnight. they're deadlocked with the company that it pays to carry it. including showtime. chess games like this are becoming more common. viewers pay the price. the more they charge the companies, the cable bills go up. cable bills go up about 4% every year. >> people get frustrated when their games are blacked out. >> "dallas" on cbs. one of my favorite cbs shows. >> you can google them later, berman. coming up, more trouble for san diego's mayor. another wo...