Charter/Spectrum removed dead weight Disney channels during their spat with Disney last year and they assuredly wouldn't hesitate to yank the bulk of the Paramount channels for good.
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Apollo along with many of Private Equity Firms looking to buy Paramount owner National Amusments
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The story continues…
deadline.com
Sony Apollo Paramount Merger Wouldn’t Reduce Theatrical Output, Though TV & Streaming Assets Would Be Shed
Sony Apollo Paramount Merger: Movie Output To Remain High, TV Assets To Be Sold
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These trade papers are so so desperate to prolong a fantasy deal that Shari Redstone herself already killed. She has repeatedly said she will not sell the company if it is broken up.The story continues…
Sony Apollo Paramount Merger Wouldn’t Reduce Theatrical Output, Though TV & Streaming Assets Would Be Shed
Sony Apollo Paramount Merger: Movie Output To Remain High, TV Assets To Be Sold
Some media analyst was on CNBC this morning talking about the media landscape and in particular the Warner/Paramount bidding wars.
I thought he brought up an excellent point that Redstone and the Board are likely to consider: Selling whole or parts of the company right now is not a good value, but doing a deal for exclusive content licensing might be. That way the company sits back and collects exclusive licensing fees on decades of content for the next five to ten years, then looks again at selling if the values are warranted. National Amusements/Paramount is less saddled with trying to placate Wall Street analysts with media kabuki theater tactics, because they have a (almost) guaranteed flow of income from a licensing partner. It takes the heat off of Redstone and the Board to sell or part the company out.
Sony, Apollo to sell CBS and other Paramount-owned networks if deal approved: report
CBS, MTV and Paramount Plus could be divorced from the Paramount Pictures, according to a report.
thedesk.net
Here is another one on the proposed Sony and Apollo bidding on Paramount.
I wasn't the only one who lost money on Paramount:
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Warren Buffett Has Sold His Paramount Stock: “We Sold it All, and We Lost Quite a Bit of Money”
The famed investor was the largest shareholder in Paramount's non-voting stock and took a steep loss on the sale, adding that he made the decision to buy in the first place.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Did BH owned WPLG from Graham in 2015, so this is nothing new in BH entering television. Scripps used BH just to buy Ion.I wasn't the only one who lost money on Paramount:
Warren Buffett Has Sold His Paramount Stock: “We Sold it All, and We Lost Quite a Bit of Money”
The famed investor was the largest shareholder in Paramount's non-voting stock and took a steep loss on the sale, adding that he made the decision to buy in the first place.
Warren Buffett said he could make a 50% return on $1 million and predicted higher taxes. Here are 14 Q&A nuggets.
Warren Buffett teased a potential Canada bet, predicted Berkshire would surpass $200 billion in cash this quarter, and shrugged off dollar worries.www.businessinsider.com
What I recall is Shari saying she wasn’t interested in selling the company in pieces. She wanted to do one deal.
Looks now like Sony plans to sell all the linear broadcasting assets including CBS (which removes any FCC objection to Sony being a Japanese company) as well as the Paramount lot. The revenue from those probably keeps stockholders on board, leaving only the DOJ and whether they’ll sign off on taking five big studios down to four.
But this is still fluid. A lot could happen, including no deal.
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How many misfires has Warren Buffett had as an investor? A handful, if that? He's entitled to at least a few oopsies.I wasn't the only one who lost money on Paramount:
Warren Buffett Has Sold His Paramount Stock: “We Sold it All, and We Lost Quite a Bit of Money”
The famed investor was the largest shareholder in Paramount's non-voting stock and took a steep loss on the sale, adding that he made the decision to buy in the first place.
He can afford it
Paramount Global announced layoffs of 800 people and corporate restructuring after the resignation of company CEO:
www.nbcnewyork.com
This sounds like a company with a leadership problem.
Paramount leadership team outlines job cuts, streaming JV plans at annual meeting
Paramount and Skydance have agreed to terms of a merger, but the deal is awaiting signoff from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.
www.nbcnewyork.com
This sounds like a company with a leadership problem.
I mean, if David Ellison wants to incinerate his father's Oracle trust fund money like this, who am I to judge?Paramount Global announced layoffs of 800 people and corporate restructuring after the resignation of company CEO:
Paramount leadership team outlines job cuts, streaming JV plans at annual meeting
Paramount and Skydance have agreed to terms of a merger, but the deal is awaiting signoff from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.
This sounds like a company with a leadership problem.
If Comcast goes to debt, they will probably sell universal to Sony to turn the big 4 to big 3 and then Amazon might buy WBD and Disney to turn it into the big 2 and they a Amazon-Sony Merger might turn the Big 2 into the Big 1 and they might buy plarium and air bud and spin master and if they merge with Tencent and everyone else, they might merge into the biggest evilest greediest mega-corporation called Discent and they might go for a hostile takeover of the world and possibly our omniverse (which has every multiverse with every universe imaginable) and breaking all the FCC Rules of Media ownership
Good Lord, talk about a run-one sentence.
Comcast isn't going to sell Universal. It's easily one of the most profitable sides of their portfolio. Just the music and film licensing rights alone make much more over the long haul than NBC network or the linear TV group, period.
Hmm I'm not so sure about that move about Comcast selling their movie and TV library to Sony.
FYI the music part of Universal is owned by Vivendi. The theme park business is also very profitable.
They have a Sheri Redstone problem.Paramount Global announced layoffs of 800 people and corporate restructuring after the resignation of company CEO:
Paramount leadership team outlines job cuts, streaming JV plans at annual meeting
Paramount and Skydance have agreed to terms of a merger, but the deal is awaiting signoff from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.
This sounds like a company with a leadership problem.
Yes it is. Anyone who wants to understand the Comcast Universal business status just has to check out their latest 10K online.
if it's in case a domino effect happens due to the subtraction of the big 5 to the big 1
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