NBC Universal merging with Warner Media?

[Ozymandeas]

AT&T can’t buy Comcast. If anything apple or Amazon might buy something

Smaller companies acquire larger companies all the time. This isn’t happening though as AT&T doesn’t want to sell HBO Max. They’re still trying to compete with Netflix and Disney. And Brian Roberts is never selling his father’s company either. Comcast is getting destroyed by cord cutting. They need streaming to work. Maybe they’ll spin them into separate companies, and combine the two, like Viacom/CBS except they’ll both share the National Amusements role on a 50/50 basis but, I don’t know if AT&T feels like it needs Comcast as their streaming app is much better than what Comcast is offering. I can see why Comcast wants that deal as they suck but, I don’t see why AT&T would want that deal or why they’d give up control.

 

[HipHopStan]

Warner Bros. Discovery Has Bigger Problems Than Its DC Search

The film studio’s hunt for its own Kevin Feige may be complicated by key questions about what’s next for the heavily indebted company — and whether another major deal is on the horizon.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

This could happen in 2024 because I don’t trust the government to enforce anti trust laws. They only enforce them when a medium size business tries to merge to take on the big boys. It would horrible and tragic to the film industry. Less studios means less diverse movies. Goddammit, 20th Century Fox fell to Disney making one less studio. This does not need to happen to WB too.

 

[ORDER_66]

God no... one megacorp is enough!!!

 

[HipHopStan]

Less competition makes for an eventual stale market.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Warner Bros. Discovery Has Bigger Problems Than Its DC Search

The film studio’s hunt for its own Kevin Feige may be complicated by key questions about what’s next for the heavily indebted company — and whether another major deal is on the horizon.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

This could happen in 2024 because I don’t trust the government to enforce anti trust laws. They only enforce them when a medium size business tries to merge to take on the big boys. It would horrible and tragic to the film industry. Less studios means less diverse movies. Goddammit, 20th Century Fox fell to Disney making one less studio. This does not need to happen to WB too.

i hear that but both Universal and WB produce all types of films. FOX going to Disney was worse because everyone realized they'd never really do much w/ 20th Century FOX

 

[FromStLouis]

There will still be Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Paramount and others all still out there.

Plenty of content and content creators and new ones will spring up. There's more IP now than ever.

DC Comics deserves solid footing and a clean slate.

 

[loyola llothta]

Smaller companies acquire larger companies all the time. This isn’t happening though as AT&T doesn’t want to sell HBO Max. They’re still trying to compete with Netflix and Disney. And Brian Roberts is never selling his father’s company either. Comcast is getting destroyed by cord cutting. They need streaming to work. Maybe they’ll spin them into separate companies, and combine the two, like Viacom/CBS except they’ll both share the National Amusements role on a 50/50 basis but, I don’t know if AT&T feels like it needs Comcast as their streaming app is much better than what Comcast is offering. I can see why Comcast wants that deal as they suck but, I don’t see why AT&T would want that deal or why they’d give up control.

Fast forward I was right

 

[Optimus Prime]

Grace put together this pretty chart detailing why Universal would want to do this
Goverment would probably make them sell CNN to someone immediately if they were to approve it

 

[humminbird]

Grace put together this pretty chart detailing why Universal would want to do this
Goverment would probably make them sell CNN to someone immediately if they were to approve it

yeah I was going to share grace's video
she gets a lot of stuff wrong but there was some great tidbits In that video
it makes perfect sense for Comcast to do something like this
it's almost like the stars are aligned for them

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

yeah I was going to share grace's video
she gets a lot of stuff wrong but there was some great tidbits In that video
it makes perfect sense for Comcast to do something like this
it's almost like the stars are aligned for them

Some people on here are gonna be hypocrites Lol. When Disney bought Marvel/Star Wars and then merged (or bought 20th century Fox) it was celebrated by most people..

now all of a sudden this merger would be "bad" hmm.. Personally i didn't want any mergers but that's me

 

[humminbird]

Some people on here are gonna be hypocrites Lol. When Disney bought Marvel/Star Wars and then merged (or bought 20th century Fox) it was celebrated by most people..

now all of a sudden this merger would be "bad" hmm.. Personally i didn't want any mergers but that's me

I think this is due to apple and amazon getting into the movie game
the only way they could win is by combining together or be bought by them eventually

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I think this is due to apple and amazon getting into the movie game
the only way they could win is by combining together or be bought by them eventually

nbc owns a lot of internet space tho.. even if they don't "win" w/ streaming they can always control that aspect

 

[Raw Sauce]

Some people on here are gonna be hypocrites Lol. When Disney bought Marvel/Star Wars and then merged (or bought 20th century Fox) it was celebrated by most people..

now all of a sudden this merger would be "bad" hmm.. Personally i didn't want any mergers but that's me

The reason this makes people uncomfortable is because unlike Disney buying Fox as two media organizations, Comcast having all that IP and being a service provider is concerning.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

The reason this makes people uncomfortable is because unlike Disney buying Fox as two media organizations, Comcast having all that IP and being a service provider is concerning.

That should be concerning my only point is Disney set the wheels in motion for the "super team" era

Disney notoriously has attempted to sandbag physical media as well

 

[Rekkapryde]

Less competition makes for an eventual stale market.

Need to be broken up