Reel Green Episode 1 | WarnerMedia NBC Universal Collaboration (Audio)

WarnerMedia-NBCUniversal Streaming War Team-Up?

• WarnerMedia(owned by AT&T) with 7,000 film and 5,000 show library
  • FilmStruck => Turner Movie Classic
  • DramaFever => Korean, Chinese, Japanese films
  • DC Comics content on DC Universe streaming service
  • Harry Potter
• NBCUniversal catalog includes:
  • Fast & Furious
  • Jurassic Park
  • Back to the Future
• NBCU owns 30% of Hulu
• Joining with NBCU creates library 12,000 movies and 5,000 from Warner and 100,000 episodes from NBCU
  • HBO to remain separate $14.99 per month per CEO John Stankey
• Still may not be enough to compete with Netflix and Disney+
• $71 billion Disney-FOX deal expected to be complete next year
• Disney CEO Bob Iger claims Disney+ to be a four-quadrant service(family-fare)
• Netflix expected to spend $13 billion on content

Amazon Continues Sports Push

• CEO Jeff Bezos puts in offer for 20+ regional Fox Sports Networks
• Fox Sports Networks may fetch $20 billion, per analysts
• Disney must divest from 21st Century Fox acquisition
• Amazon currently streams Thursday Night Football for Prime members
• Bezos struck deal for 20 English Premier League

Disney Receives Approval to Buy FOX from China

• Approval raised stocks for both companies
• China => second largest movie market
• Disney still needs approval from the European Union
• Regulators require divestment from the following:
  • History Channel
  • H2
  • Lifetime Channels
  • Blaze
  • Crime & Investigation
• A+E Networks’ channels controlled by Disney and Hearst

John Malone Predicts More Mergers and Acquisitions From Netflix Effect

• John Malone Credentials:
  • Chairman of Liberty Global
  • TV and broadband company
  • 18 million customers
  • $18 billion annualized revenue in 2017

• Media Company Stakes
  • Discovery Communications
  • Lionsgate Entertainment