Sentence:  If the <WSD>takeover</WSD> is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, [...]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.