Five years ago this week… Dish Network and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) came out against the three-way merger of Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. While NAB wanted a full review of media ownership in the US, Dish argued that broadband dominance would give Charter a vested interest to prevent OTT from developing, no doubt fuelled by its concern for Sling TV. Similar accusations had recently sunk the Comcast–TWC merger, but Dish was too demanding with its remedies, which included unbundling Charter’s broadband and MVPD businesses, restricting Charter’s domination of third party video rights and forcing Charter to offer rival video bundles. We couldn’t see the FCC being anywhere near that strict considering that the deal…