Comcast and Disney
02-11-04 | 04:10 PM
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Comcast and Disney
Comcast cable has announced that they are willing to take over the Walt Disney company. Disney execs are going to discuss it.
Walt and Ray Disney must be having fits.
Walt and Ray Disney must be having fits.
02-11-04 | 09:02 PM
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Hopefully Eisner won't do anything rash, like agreeing to this before he can get the boot.
02-11-04 | 11:46 PM
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Yeah, this worries me on a few fronts. For some reason I like to think of Disney as a parent company w/o some OTHER corporate deal over them. I also hate the idea of ANOTHER mega-merger b/c those just suck. But it seems to have worked for Time/Warner, who says it won't work for these guys?
But we'll just have to wait and see how all of this plays out.
But we'll just have to wait and see how all of this plays out.
02-12-04 | 12:51 AM
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Originally posted by Michael Corvin
Hopefully Eisner won't do anything rash, like agreeing to this before he can get the boot.
Hopefully Eisner won't do anything rash, like agreeing to this before he can get the boot.
02-12-04 | 10:09 AM
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If anything, this is probably good for Roy. It would mean the end of Eisner pretty much. Plus, Comcast has said they will make animation the center of the company.
Still, to have a cable company buying up Disney shows how things have changed in the company in the past few years. In the mid 90s, it would probably have been the other way around. With them buying Miramax and ABC, they were doing pretty well.
Still, to have a cable company buying up Disney shows how things have changed in the company in the past few years. In the mid 90s, it would probably have been the other way around. With them buying Miramax and ABC, they were doing pretty well.
02-12-04 | 12:03 PM
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But it seems to have worked for Time/Warner, who says it won't work for these guys?
But it seems to have worked for Time/Warner, who says it won't work for these guys?
02-12-04 | 03:23 PM
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The sharks are all circling around Disney - they can smell blood from miles away and all of the big boys want a piece.
It seems to me like Eisner has been trying to make Disney look attractive for a takeover for years - he'd stand to make a fortune out of the deal.
But Comcast, as big as they are, may not be big enough to not appear to be a defeat for Eisner & Co.
You get bought out by a Sony, that's one thing. You get bought by a little cable company, that's something else.
It seems to me like Eisner has been trying to make Disney look attractive for a takeover for years - he'd stand to make a fortune out of the deal.
But Comcast, as big as they are, may not be big enough to not appear to be a defeat for Eisner & Co.
You get bought out by a Sony, that's one thing. You get bought by a little cable company, that's something else.
02-13-04 | 01:26 AM
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There was a report the other day that the Disney board is looking for someone to replace Eisner "whenever" he decides to step down from his position. Usually that means that someone will soon "suggest" that he step down from his job as soon as a replacement is found.
