The feds signaled this week they have no issues with the acquisition by Comcast/NBCU's Fandango movie ticket web site of movie review sites Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes from Time Warner's Warner Bros.
Time Warner gets an equity stake in the deal, which was announced last month.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department combine to do Hart Scott Rodino antitrust reviews of deals over approximately $75 million (the exact figure is occasionally adjusted), but grants early termination of that review if they find no reason to block or condition the deal.
The FCC has no involvement in the review since no FCC licenses are involved, so the deal is now free to close.
Fandango, which recently acquired M-Go and, off that purchase, will launch a transactional VOD service called FandangoNOW later this month, continues to be a subsidiary of NBCU.
-Multichannel News technology editor Jeff Baumgartner contributed to this story
