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HBO CEO Used Fake Twitter Accounts To Troll Critics, Didn’t Realize There Are...
We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–> Warner Brothers Discovery mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived, resulting in more than...
View ArticleVerizon, AT&T Customers Sue To Reverse T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised...
We just got done noting how pretty much all of the criticism of the Sprint T-Mobile merger by economists and consumer advocates wound up being true. The deal has resulted in more than 10,000+...
View ArticleWarner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous...
By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off and fusion...
View ArticleFCC Protects What’s Left Of Media Ownership Limits After Trump Attacks
During Trump’s tenure, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters...
View ArticlePrepare For A Ton Of Dumb, Counterproductive Streaming Video Mergers
While Comcast’s streaming service Peacock has now reached 30 million subscribers, Comcast has been taking an absolute bath on the proposition. Comcast CEO Mike Cavanagh says the company lost nearly $3...
View ArticleFCC Continues To Punt On The Hard Questions Surrounding Media Ownership
Between the holidays, and to minimal fanfare, the FCC released a decision in the 2018 Quadrennial Review of Media Ownership policy. The timing of the release was no surprise, as the agency had been...
View ArticleMicrosoft Lays Off Nearly 2,000, Including A Bunch From Activision Blizzard...
And here we go. We have spent the past couple of years discussing Microsoft’s acquisition, and all the trials and tribulations that led to it, of Activision Blizzard. This deal, that faced mostly...
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Max ‘Enshittifies’ Itself By Making John Oliver Harder To Watch
Now that subscriber growth has slowed, streaming TV giants have taken the predictable turn of making their services shittier and more expensive to deliver Wall Street (impossibly) unlimited quarterly...
View ArticleComcast, Paramount Eye Merger Because The Streaming Sector Is Completely Out...
We’ve been talking a lot about how as streaming subscription growth slows, streaming companies will begin doing whatever’s necessary to deliver Wall Street quarterly growth at any cost. Even if it...
View ArticleFCC Outlaws Sleazy And Misleading Cable TV Fees
For decades, U.S. cable and broadband giants have advertised one price, then socked consumers with a much higher price once the bill actually arrives. This is usually accomplished via a bevy of...
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