This is actually massive news because David Zaslav, member of the Triple Parentheses Gang, genuinely ran it into the ground post-merger, cancelling a lot of actually decent movies like Coyote vs ACME, fumbling the NBA television deal and essentially being propped up by sports as a whole, but apparently the companies most likely to buy it are Paramount, owned by Davis Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, and Comcast, owned by Brian Roberts, son of its founder Ralph Roberts, all of whom are also members of the Triple Parentheses Gang.
Merge the two services into a renamed service. Give grandfathered plans to existing memberships. Introduce new content, but gate it behind non-grandfathered-plans. New plans, obviously, have a higher price point, since, of course, they have NEW SHOWS!
It's going to Comcast. Paramount made a an offer and it was refused. I expect to hear about new WB stuff at Universal Parks soon. I mean, beside Harry Potter.
To be honest, most of this has been known for a while, but making it official is just now being said. The industry likes to keep things hush hush for so long it gets weird.
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This is actually massive news because David Zaslav, member of the Triple Parentheses Gang, genuinely ran it into the ground post-merger, cancelling a lot of actually decent movies like Coyote vs ACME, fumbling the NBA television deal and essentially being propped up by sports as a whole, but apparently the companies most likely to buy it are Paramount, owned by Davis Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, and Comcast, owned by Brian Roberts, son of its founder Ralph Roberts, all of whom are also members of the Triple Parentheses Gang.
That's a lot of parentheses.
Merely a cohencidence
If Paramount did buy them I wonder if they would merge HBO Max and Paramount+ into one giant streaming service
Not unless they can find a way to make you pay more for it without raising too much of a stink.
They'll figure it out I'm sure.
Charge more and include more advertisements as well
“New look. Same great shows!”
Merge the two services into a renamed service. Give grandfathered plans to existing memberships. Introduce new content, but gate it behind non-grandfathered-plans. New plans, obviously, have a higher price point, since, of course, they have NEW SHOWS!
See? I knew they'd figure it out 😎
It's going to Comcast. Paramount made a an offer and it was refused. I expect to hear about new WB stuff at Universal Parks soon. I mean, beside Harry Potter.
To be honest, most of this has been known for a while, but making it official is just now being said. The industry likes to keep things hush hush for so long it gets weird.