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Cable giant Charter Communications, which acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks earlier this year for $65.5 billion, has hired public affairs outfit McBee Strategic Consulting for Capitol Hill issues involving telecommunications and broadcasting.
According to lobbying disclosure documents filed in September, the cable TV operator has retained the government relations shop for help with “issues related to cable and telecom and merger integration.”
Charter’s May mega merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks now makes the cable telecommunications company the third-largest in the country. Charter re-branded its residential services under the name Spectrum.
The Charter account will be led by Robert Chamberlin, who was previously chief counsel to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee under chairman John McCain (R-AZ) and assistant counsel on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Julie Bertoson, former associate director to the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs and staff assistant to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee under Chairmen Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and John Rockefeller (D-WV); and Samuel Whitehorn, former deputy staff director and general counsel to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior counsel and staff director to the Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee.
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company banned by Defense Secretary Hegseth, has hired Ballard Partners for DC representation.
The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development enrolls Venable for government relations services.
Coinbase has hired Checkmate Government Relations, which has close ties to the Trump administration, to handle matters related to digital assets as the Senate works on the Clarity Act.
Peter Thiel-backed Palantir Technologies has added Democratic firm Ferox Strategies to its DC lobbying line-up to handle data analytics and technology issues.
Former congressmen Joe Crowley (D-NY) and Jeff Denham (R-CA) have signed on to handle the “new” TikTok on issues related to internet technology and learning-enabled platforms.
