I am not totally sure I understand the question, but I will try gently to
answer.
In no way making a judgment call, I find sometimes that MR. Trump does not
understand how presidential authority works.
he seems to think that his powers would be limitless, that he could at
will block anything, jail anyone, or change whatever he wants.
He perhaps thinks saying he would block the merger makes him look good, that
he cares about the consumer.
Still, given he stated at the same event that he would reverse the
NBC/universal merger, with whom he formally worked, his motives are any
person's guess.
Just my opinion of course,
Kare
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
So if Trump just says for the hell of it or to say the elite is against him,
why does he bother to say that he would block it?
On 23 Oct 2016, at 21:59, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually, Trump would have no authority as President to block this deal...the
office is not a dictatorship.
Still, I suspect those who can impact the merger will be reluctant, rather a
few have second thoughts about the last major media merger of this sort.
It does put allot of items into one very large basket to be sure.
Harry Potter and John snow working for the same company...who knew?
Kare
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
In the news today I heard that if Trump wins the US Election, he will block the
deal.
Kawal.
On 23 Oct 2016, at 19:31, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote:
I don’t think it’s a problem of antitrust as it’s diverse industries but what I think is
AT&T should have spent that 80 billion on updating their network so it’s not such a crap
pile. AT&T is by far the worst company to work with in the n network space. They have
highly congested peers, they don’t maintain their interconnections and technology wise they are
years behind. On the wireless side their LTE implementation is only ahead of Sprint and that’s
not saying much. They are years behind VZW and T-Mobile and in general a hostile bunch to work
with. If I were a stock holder (and I’m not) that money should have been spent in house
instead of buying HBO. C.N.N is a failing joke it might as well be shut down but the content
generators like HBO are a good bet. I just hate to see what AT&T’s culture does to the
content they generate. It’s hard for me to imagine Larry David answering to the suits at
AT&T.;)
On Oct 23, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
Time Warner cable was split from Time Warner, and charter got that. This is
everything else Time Warner. Hopefully, the anti-trust regulators will actually
do their job, and this won't go through.
Mary
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On Oct 23, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]>
wrote:
Wonder what ever happened to Charter buying out Time Warner? Wasn't
Charter/Spectrom supposed to have just recently bought TWC? What gives? LOL!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kliphton Miller
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 1:58 PM
Subject: AT&T to buy Time Warner for a reported $80 billion
U.S. wireless carrier is buying media entertainment conglomerate Time Warner for a
reported $80 billion as consolidation continues in media and technology industries.
AT&T has reportedly agreed to pay $107.50 a share in a half-cash, half-stock
deal, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Time Warner, which does not have a
controlling shareholder, reported $28 billion in 2015 revenue.
The media giant had a market capitalization of $68 billion before rumors of a
possible takeover bid. AT&T currently has a market capitalization of more than
$230 billion.
AT&T’s boss Randall Stephenson, 56 years old, will head the new company and
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, 64, will leave after an interim period following the
deal, according to a person familiar with the plans.
The acquisition agreement should be formally announced Saturday evening.
If the deal goes through, AT&T will control Time Warner’s premium media properties,
including brands like HBO, CNN, TNT and Warner Bros. And just like that, AT&T could
transform itself from the phone company into a media giant.
How crazy is that?
According to the article:
A merger of the companies would be the most ambitious marriage of content and
distribution in the media and telecom industries since Comcast Corp.’s purchase
of NBCUniversal and would create a behemoth to rival that cable giant.
If the deal completes, AT&T will rely on television and media for more than 40
percent of its whole revenue. WSJ saidyesterday that Apple recently approached Time
Warner “about pursuing a combination” though the discussions allegedly didn’t
progress “beyond a preliminary stage.”
<ATT-Time-Warner-merger-WSJ-infographic.jpg>
Apple, of course, has for years pursued plans to build an online TV service and
a skinny bundle of premium TV programing, to no avail. Instead, the iPhone
maker has shifted energies to creating original programming of its own.
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