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Media Companies Are Ready to Sell. Does Anyone Want to Buy?

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I think all traditional media/broadcasters should thank Elon for completely torpedoing X/Twitter's chances at advertising.
Chances are this mess will splatter on other social media companies too, and he knows it.
Here's a portion of that train wreck...I mean, interview:
 
TheBigA said:
Apparently Bob Iger was still in the room (in the front row) and Elon directed some of his ire at Iger.

No one intended social media to become a political tool. Zuckerman was just trying to get laid.
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Seems like anything public, including business these days gets politicized.
 
michael hagerty said:
Yeah, but when you decide to make amplifying hate speech part of your business model, then it’s nobody’s fault but your own.
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In another part of the interview, Elon gave a pretty heartfelt apology for re-tweeting (or Xting?) the antisemitic trope. Can't recall whether that was before or after he told X's advertisers to go F-themselves...
But it seems like he can't help himself from posting disgusting things. I think it was on CNN after the CNBC 'F-you-advertisers' portion of the interview, that one of their guest pundits said Elon was like a 52-year-old teenager. Apt description.
 
The Comet TV DTV subchannel does a good job of editing TV shows produced for cable (pay TV or ad supported cable) - the sound is muted momentarily sometimes (the closed captions only show the first letter of the word+"---") and sometimes parts of some scenes are blurred out.

The new Outer Limits, new Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1 are edited this way on Comet TV.

Maybe this type of repurposed and edited content is what will fill OTA linear TV schedules in the future.


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kfbkfb said:
The Comet TV DTV subchannel does a good job of editing TV shows produced for cable (pay TV or ad supported cable) - the sound is muted momentarily sometimes (the closed cations only show the first letter of the word+"---") and sometimes parts of some scenes are blurred out.

The new Outer Limits, new Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1 are edited this way on Comet TV.

Maybe this type of repurposed and edited content is what will fill OTA linear TV schedules in the future.
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There are plenty of opportunities to air this old stuff on diginets (dot. channels) via the Comet, Cozy, MeTV's of the world.
The day these old shows end up on regular linear TV, is when that form of media is nearing its untimely end.
 
www.marketwatch.com

Shari Redstone reportedly in talks to sell Paramount parent to Skydance

Media tycoon Shari Redstone is in talks to sell controlling interesting in Paramount parent National Amusements to media and entertainment company Skydance,...
www.marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com
^^^
...and could look to sell its TV assets, including CBS.


Maybe combine the Big 3 into NBC+AB&CBS - The National Broadcasting Company plus the American Broadcasting and Columbia Broadcasting System and be done with it.


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kfbkfb said:
www.marketwatch.com

Shari Redstone reportedly in talks to sell Paramount parent to Skydance

Media tycoon Shari Redstone is in talks to sell controlling interesting in Paramount parent National Amusements to media and entertainment company Skydance,...
www.marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com
^^^
...and could look to sell its TV assets, including CBS.
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Okay, first of all, since we know a lot of people don't click through, let's clarify that the half a pull quote you used (it wasn't in quotation marks) actually reads;

"Deadline had reported that Skydance would be more interested in Paramount’s IP and movie studio, and could look to sell its TV assets, including CBS."

And the question facing Skydance would then be the same one that Bob Iger didn't get a satisfactory answer to when he floated his trial balloon about selling ABC and Disney's other linear TV assets——who can and wants to buy it?


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Maybe combine the Big 3 into NBC+AB&CBS - The National Broadcasting Company plus the American Broadcasting and Columbia Broadcasting System and be done with it.
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Say what?

The DOJ isn't going to sign off on two of those networks under the same roof (which is what analysts have said gets in the way of Shari's dream deal, a Universal/Paramount merger), much less all three of them. Notgonnahappen.
 
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All I can say about Kirk's post is: Good Lord.
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I suppose that, if you buy into the deep-state weaponized-DOJ conspiracy theory, it's conceivable that the DOJ would let a mega-merger like that go through as a means of unifying the three OTA networks seen as pro-Democratic against the one seen as pro-Republican. I don't know how tightly kfb's tinfoil hat is wrapped, though.
 
I guess it's time for some oblique comment by NBCUniversal that the NBC TV network isn't a necessarily needed asset going forward.

The TV networks are just a brand and offer one way (with a high fixed cost and specialized equipment) to distribute TV shows, movies, sports and news on a nationwide basis,, maybe they're all headed the way of the DuMont TV network (being gradually shut down).


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