Mediagazer: Reed Hastings endorses Charter-TWC merger as a “tremendous positive” for over-the-top video services like Netflix, praises T-Mobile's Binge On (Jeff Baumgartner/Multichannel News)

10:30 PM ET, January 19, 2016

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