Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 23, 2016
Basically, you just got a New World Order done on you, stupid goyim.
AT&T’s planned $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner, the New York-based company that owns HBO, CNN, TNT and Warner Bros. film studio, is a huge domino falling in the content business, with promises of innovation and cost-savings that will make their competitors uneasy. And the move could set off a new wave of telecommunications companies and Internet giants, such as Google and Apple, buying, or making deals with, popular content programmers, further blurring the boundaries among the industries.
That will surely trigger multiple layers of complexity for customers, industry regulators, investors and consumer watchdogs as they sort out revenue possibilities and conflicts of interest. But competitors of Time Warner or AT&T can no longer to afford to stand by idly.
Time Warner’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes intimated as much, saying the deal was partly to get ahead of competitors. “You’re going to see all kinds of distributors following,” he said in a press conference call with reporters Saturday night. “And you’re going to see a kind of revolution in the TV world.”
Telecom providers have been shopping for content companies to acquire as their wireless smartphone and broadband Internet service markets mature. “As upside from data usage seems to be increasingly capped, we would not be surprised if other distributors were to potentially embrace larger opportunities in the content arena over time,” said Barclays Equity Research analysts Kannan Venkateshwar and Amir Rozwadowski in a recent note to investors.
Ownership of Time Warner’s content – including Harry Potter movies, DC Entertainment films, whose franchises include Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, CNN, NBA basketball on TNT, MLB baseball on TBS and HBO’s critically acclaimed shows, like Game of Thrones — guarantees that AT&T can make those programs available on its DirecTV satellite TV service. AT&T can also stream those showsto its Net-delivered and wireless DirecTV-branded streaming services in the works. AT&T bought DirecTV last year for $48.5 billion.
We’re going toward a Running Man-type scenario.
Just in time for 2017.