TIme Warner Chairman and CEO surprised attendees at TVWeek’s recent Innovation360 Conference by saying that even at the time it happened the merger of AOL and Time Warner was a a bad idea. In this video clip from the conference you’ll hear Bewkes explain his reasoning, and how he thinks it makes a good lesson for the executives talking about a Comcast-NBC Universal merger.

Bewkes’ comments at the TVWeek conference are also referenced in David Carr’s media column this morning in the New York Times.

–Chuck Ross