Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), all 2020 White House hopefuls, are urging officials to review Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of 21 regional sports networks, saying the media conglomerate relays "partisan political messages" to viewers.

“It is clear that Sinclair has an explicit interest in, and commitment to, relaying partisan political messages to its viewers — making its recent anti competitive expansion attempts into millions of additional households all the more concerning,” they wrote in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice.

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The senators warn that Sinclair “could market to distributors combinations of sports and local television channels that they have to offer to consumers as a bundle package" with the $10.6 billion acquisition.

“Distributors understand the value of live sports and the limited number of un-bundled live sport streaming options available to consumers leave ‘sports fans ... tethered to their cable bundle,’” they added. “Therefore, the agreement with Disney offers Sinclair an opportunity to charge consumers more by packaging their cable and broadcast programs.”

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