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10-21-2016, 06:06 PM | #1 | |
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Reuters: AT&T agrees to buy Time Warner (HBO, CNN, DC Comics) for $85 billion
This has to deal with TV and DC, so I guess I'll post it here:
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10-21-2016, 06:40 PM | #2 |
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I don't wanna welcome this new overlord.....
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10-21-2016, 06:43 PM | #3 |
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I hope the CEO of AT&T is a Marvel fan.
Maybe he can spare us of all these sure-to-be-bad DC movies. |
10-21-2016, 06:55 PM | #4 |
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Isn't this big news?
I remember people going crazy when Disney first announced they were buying Marvel and then Star Wars a couple years ago. |
10-21-2016, 07:37 PM | #5 |
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Meh, no one cares about WB or DC.
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10-21-2016, 08:24 PM | #6 |
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Of course this is big news, it's a huge acquisition and bigger than Disney buying Marvel or Lucasfilm.
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10-21-2016, 09:44 PM | #7 |
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Then why is nobody flipping out? I remember online fandoms when ballistic when they heard Disney was buying Marvel for the first time. Disney also buying Star Wars was quite a surprise too.
Why isn't everyone up in arms coming up with conspiracy theories and shouting from rooftops? Where are the bizarre overreactions and angry rants from fanboys? Where is the madness? Either that or I'm not looking in the right places. |
10-21-2016, 09:52 PM | #8 | |
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10-21-2016, 10:19 PM | #9 |
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Because as much as nerds like to be armchair CEOs in discussions about they're favorite companies they don't actually care for these things. Disney buying Lucasfilm meant new movies and Marvel meant they were financially set for life etc. This deal means not much is going to change with DC and just like Comcast buying NBC Universal only certain people will be interested not online nerds. |
10-22-2016, 04:59 AM | #10 |
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People have been raving about DC beating Marvel in the comics charts for months, so wrong
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10-22-2016, 07:42 AM | #12 |
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I love the irony that AT&T owns Time Warner, but Time Warner Cable is owned by their direct competitor Charter Communications.
I think Disney's purchases were more interesting from a news point of view because Disney specifically went after the Marvel, Star Wars, etc. brands rather than simply buying companies that owned various brands, as is the case with AT&T. DC comics and Warner Bros. have been small pieces of many huge buyout deals, including the infamous Time-Warner/AOL deal in 2000 that more-or-less sunk Ted Turner's empire.
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10-23-2016, 08:00 AM | #13 |
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10-23-2016, 01:35 PM | #14 | |
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The Disney buyouts were more major from a fan angle because now Star Wars and Marvel can legally co-mingle and stuff like that.
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10-23-2016, 02:08 PM | #15 | ||
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Just imagine--officially licensed DC Comics emojis and ringtones. I don't see how this would change the comics and their tie-in materials, though I could be very wrong.
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10-23-2016, 02:37 PM | #16 |
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I'm genuinely curious... is there any upside to this merger?
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10-24-2016, 01:43 AM | #17 |
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11-02-2016, 10:51 AM | #18 |
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You mean Lucasfilm LTD studios. they own US distributation rights to Ghibli and also Muppets rights from Jim Henson Studios and also Pixar
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11-02-2016, 02:40 PM | #19 |
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Hopefully this deal is blocked. There is a upside and downside to big business, but as others have said there doesn't appear to be any upside to this deal.
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06-12-2018, 03:03 PM | #20 |
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It's official. The federal judge approved the merger today.
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