Charter is the country's fourth-largest cable provider, and snapping up the sixth-largest player in Bright House will only find the combined company in a tight race with privately held Cox Communications and its roughly 6 million accounts for a distant third place. The wedding snapshot isn't as pretty at the other end of the cable television market. Comcast ( CMCSK ) ( CMCSA ) and Time Warner Cable ( TWC ) are trying to hook up, and there's more than just a little public and regulatory resistance to the pairing up of the country's two largest providers. That deal isn't a lock to go through, and just a few days ago we had Comcast announcing that the original early 2015 closing date for the merger is being pushed back to the middle of 2015. The market is clanging silverware against champagne glasses as it toasts the proposed pairing of Charter and Bright House, but there too many people waiting to shout "I object" at the top of their lungs as Comcast and Time Warner Cable try to tie the knot.