May 25, 2010 -- Arent Fox’s Michael Hazzard, who heads the firm’s Telecommunications Practice, was quoted in Communications Daily in an article on the FCC’s review of Comcast's plan to buy control of NBC Universal:

‘[FCC] approval of the transaction still seems likely, with the information requests illustrating a concern about whether access to programming gets restricted, said lawyer Michael Hazzard of Arent Fox, an antitrust professional. Over-the-top video "is an area where at least arguably the cable operators have not had an incentive to bring a lot of technical change," he said. "My sense is that the questions have been in the works for a while" -- well before the FCC said outsider John Flynn will lead review of the deal (CD May 20 p14) -- and reflects Genachowski's interest in the transaction, Hazzard said. "We have this new form of vertical integration that I think people are quite right to ask broad, wide-ranging questions for what this means going forward."’