is time warner in financial trouble?

[liwanag]

recently i've read that there has been interest in time warner being bought by other corporations. i was wondering why. is time warner in trouble?

some articles even mentioned disney as a potential buyer? disney who owns marvel...

i would prefer dc and marvel continue to be separate entities. just so the low tier characters of each company would still get attention. kind of like when dc and wildstorm merged, wildstorm characters became less important it seemed.

[napolid]

recently i've read that there has been interest in time warner being bought by other corporations. i was wondering why. is time warner in trouble?

some articles even mentioned disney as a potential buyer? disney who owns marvel...

i would prefer dc and marvel continue to be separate entities. just so the low tier characters of each company would still get attention. kind of like when dc and wildstorm merged, wildstorm characters became less important it seemed.

21st Century Fox tried to buy Time Warner and they rejected it, I don't think it went beyond that.

[Darthkostis]

21st Century Fox tried to buy Time Warner and they rejected it, I don't think it went beyond that.

Sources are saying that Disney is going to make an offer of 169 billion. Fox's final offer was 32 billion (i think).

[Robotman]

I wonder if the govt would consider Disney owning Time Warner a monopoly.

[liwanag]

I wonder if the govt would consider Disney owning Time Warner a monopoly.

i was thinking of the same thing...

disney owning marvel is just fine with me. but when they got hold of star wars... well it left me wondering what would happen with the extended universe continuity (thrawn, jacen, jaina, mara jade....) . too bad for dark horse i get.

[RobinFan4880]

I wonder if the govt would consider Disney owning Time Warner a monopoly.

Of what? Disney would own the lion share of the market but their control would not be a monopoly since there are many other viable companies in the marketplace. Most of them do not sell bucket loads of comics but at the end of the day that is just the consumer expressing their interest in characters they like and want to read about.

[Tec15]

Of what? Disney would own the lion share of the market but their control would not be a monopoly since there are many other viable companies in the marketplace. Most of them do not sell bucket loads of comics but at the end of the day that is just the consumer expressing their interest in characters they like and want to read about.

You do realize that Time Warner also makes movies and tv shows and owns several cable channels? Comics would be the least of the problems.

[The One and Only]

I wonder if the govt would consider Disney owning Time Warner a monopoly.

From what I've heard from the talking heads on the financial shows, the Securities and Exchange Commision(SEC) never met a merger they didn't like. So yeah, there maybe a good chance of it going through.

[liwanag]

it seems like warner bros. will be having employee layoffs in its burbank studio.

https://movies.yahoo.com/news/warner...004354962.html

[CSTowle]

I wonder if the govt would consider Disney owning Time Warner a monopoly.

Considering what Comcast has gobbled up, and net neutrality laws to serve mega-corporations like Comcast, I don't see this Supreme Court knocking it down.

[Tec15]

Sources are saying that Disney is going to make an offer of 169 billion. Fox's final offer was 32 billion (i think).

What sources? You think even Disney has $169 billion available to just throw around? BTW, Fox's offer was around $80 billion (not $32 billion) and it still wasn't enough. If anything, it's probably some people flat out inventing stuff for hits.

[Robotman]

What sources? You think even Disney has $169 billion available to just throw around? BTW, Fox's offer was around $80 billion (not $32 billion) and it still wasn't enough. If anything, it's probably some people flat out inventing stuff for hits.

http://www.newsarama.com/21880-could...dc-merger.html

[Tec15]

http://www.newsarama.com/21880-could...dc-merger.html

Thought so. Literally nothing about Disney offering $169 billion. Just regurgitates some baseless speculation from the Hollywood Reporter.