If thetakeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
A time or event in whichcontrol orauthority, especially over afacility is passed from one party to the next.
1991, Information Services on Latin America (Oakland, Calif.),ISLA: Volume 43, Issues 1-3, p. 195:
Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the basetakeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.
