Calvin Ayre – Comcast has made the news twice in the last two weeks. First it announced a planned $45.2 billion merger with Time Warner Cable, which would give it a third of all the pay TV subscribers in America. Then word leaked of the deal struck between the cable giant and Netflix to make sure the latter’s content streams maintain consistent quality. The proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner wouldn’t affect competition locally since the two companies operate in different markets, and that will be the main argument the government’s antitrust regulators will lean on when they consider…