The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Opening arguments begin today in the government's antitrust lawsuit against Dallas-based AT&T.
The U.S Justice Department wants to block AT&T from merging with Time Warner. The agency argues the 85 billion-dollar deal would hurt competition and push up prices, but AT&T says the merger is needed to compete with streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
AT&T runs the country's second largest wireless network and is the biggest provider of traditional satellite and cable TV services. Time Warner owns HBO, CNN, TBS and Warner Bros. studios.
Other stories this morning:
- The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area was behind more than a third of the state's population growth from 2016 to 2017, according to new population estimates from the U-S Census Bureau.
- Texas currently has AAA credit rating, but Comptroller Glenn Hegar warns that rating could face a downgrade if Texas doesn't change how it manages its Economic Stabilization Fund - more commonly known as the Rainy Day Fund.
- The feminist filmmakers of the women’s liberation movement in the early 1970s are the focus of a screening series this weekend in Richardson.
You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:23 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.
