AT&T Plans to Separate Its Telecom and Media Businesses After Merger with Time Warner
Sources close to the Wall Street Journal report that AT&T plans to separate its telecom and media businesses should the Trump administration approve the merger.
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AT&T Has CNN’s Zucker in Crosshairs Ahead of Time Warner Acquisition
Following the revelation that CNN published fake news about the Trump administration and its alleged ties to Russia after an investigation by Breitbart News, the next head to roll at the embattled media company may be President Jeff Zucker.
CNN Parent Time Warner Still Sponsoring Public Theater’s ‘Trump’-Stabbing ‘Julius Caesar’
CNN parent company Time Warner has come under fire over its continued sponsorship of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, which depicts the assassination and brutal stabbing of its Donald Trump-inspired main character.
AT&T-Time Warner Merger Still Uncertain Despite No FCC Review
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai told the Wall Street Journal that the agency would not review the AT&T-Time Warner merger.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Signals No Interference in AT&T-Time Warner Deal
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner may be getting an easier path to approval after the chief telecommunications regulator says it isn’t likely to review the deal.
Time Warner CEO: Democrats, not Trump, Threatened First Amendment
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said Tuesday that the real threat to the First Amendment in the 2016 election had come from Democrats, not from Donald Trump — and that the media had largely missed the threat because of their own partisan bias.
The AT&T-Time Warner Deal: Perspective from the Great Trustbuster, Part III — Theodore Roosevelt Explains Why Size Doesn’t Always Matter
In Part One of our series, we considered the curious partisan political inversion around the proposed AT&T-Time Warner deal, as Donald Trump has come out noisily in opposition, while Hillary Clinton seems quietly supportive. In Part Two, we introduced our guest-expert, the Great Trustbuster himself, Theodore Roosevelt, who explained that the history of the Republican Party’s antitrust policy is more complex than most people realize. Now, in Part Three, we will press Roosevelt for a specific opinion on the AT&T-Time Warner deal, and he will expand on his quantity-vs.-quality theory of regulation.
Top Media Reporter Hints Murdochs Could Tap CNN’s Zucker to Run Fox News
In a piece exploring AT&T’s pending $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, top media journalist and author Michael Wolff floats an interesting theory: namely, that if either former News Corp. COO Peter Chernin or current CNN chief Jeff Zucker don’t replace outgoing Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, Zucker could be tapped by Rupert Murdoch’s sons to replace Roger Ailes atop Fox News.
AT&T CEO Vows ‘Independence’ for CNN in Merger With Time Warner
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Randall Stephenson, the chairman and CEO of AT&T made an appearance with current Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes to promote the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. Stephenson pledged an “independent” CNN, one
Donald Trump Plans to Break up AT&T, Time Warner Deal: ‘Too Much Concentration of Power’
Donald Trump said if elected President of the United States, he would reject the merger between Time Warner Inc. and AT&T Inc., which was reached between the two companies on Saturday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
CNN’s Zucker Admits Network Is ‘Too Liberal’
As the cable news networks take stock of their rapidly falling ratings, it appears CNN chief Jeff Zucker is at least one network boss who has finally realized his network is “too liberal.”
Charter Moves Forward on Friendly Bid for Time Warner Cable
John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media, the dominant shareholder of Charter Communications, reportedly called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days about a friendly merger following the collapse last week of an offer by Comcast to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. Malone and Marcus appear be discussing a 3-way merger that would challenge Comcast’s industry dominance.
Cord-Cutting and Cable-Bill-Cutting Are All the Rage
The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.
Black Media Group Sues Al Sharpton, Comcast for $20 Billion for Racial Discrimination
An African-American media group has filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast and Time Warner just ahead of their proposed merger.
