TSSZNews 1051 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 28 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Short sighted? That's the long game. They are switching to a pure-play content creation model because distribution is no longer lucrative. It made sense for them to do it with their radio properties because there's little money to be made in radio anymore. Without live sports for a while, we're going to see really quick if the same is true for OTA TV. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman748 1256 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Uh, Apollo? Allen Media? AT&T is conflicted, so that's out. Wouldn't both Apollo and Allen have to sell most if not all of it's own stations in order to get ABC? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC 7 Denver 1714 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, oknewsguy said: Wouldn't both Apollo and Allen have to sell most if not all of it's own stations in order to get ABC? Depends on how the ownership is split among the financiers. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1513 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 We should move this thread to Speculatron? 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I can safely say this with 100% certainty. Nothing radical is going to happen to Disney. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRyan 560 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I'm leaning towards saying that Disney may not do anything with selling ABC...at least not anywhere soon enough for it to matter. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 20 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: And yet, CBS is looking to spin off their entire O&O television group. This is what the ViacomCBS merger was about. This wouldn't shock me. Remember when Fox entertained the possibility of selling their O&O's to Amazon? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webovision 202 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 4/15/2020 at 7:12 PM, Action Newsroom said: I can definitely not. If the other Big 4 networks have O&Os, why not ABC? Axing stations that are #1 in their markets? An idiotic decision. you forgot the asterisks... #1* in their market!!! (*using the measurements that are useful to them...) there will be other things happening to the o&o's much sooner than this sale will... you all will not like them... 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRyan 560 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 19 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said: We should move this thread to Speculatron? I agree. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1279 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 46 minutes ago, Webovision said: you forgot the asterisks... #1* in their market!!! (*using the measurements that are useful to them...) there will be other things happening to the o&o's much sooner than this sale will... you all will not like them... 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 941 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Webovision said: you forgot the asterisks... #1* in their market!!! (*using the measurements that are useful to them...) there will be other things happening to the o&o's much sooner than this sale will... you all will not like them... Hooray hubbed everything. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin 118 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) On 4/16/2020 at 2:42 PM, jase said: I couldn’t imagine anyone at ABC News truly welcoming the opportunity to become ABCNN. I would expect some major pushback with them wanting to remain independent, if you will, as much as possible. Cause there to biased, that's why you'd really have journalist and staffers going to right-wing media organizations really its biased and they'll really lose there jobs. Just for the fun of it. Embarrassing the Network. Edited April 26, 2020 by Gavin 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 2:28 PM, TheRyan said: I agree. Instead of doing that, we should just ban ABC selling speculation in this thread until there are actual rumors suggesting that ABC might be sold. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS8609 59 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I can actually see where Disney acquires FoxCorp (they already market Disney properties during 9-1-1, Tucker Carlson and NFL broadcasts) and sells off virtually all of the assets that were previously Capital Cities/ABC to Hearst. Hearst would then ask for a temporary cross-ownership waiver to keep the San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle (which actually launched KTRK along with KTRH radio) while it lobbies the FCC to repeal the cross-ownership ban (which IMHO is an outdated rule that has no relevance in today's media environment). There even exists a possiblity (as has been bandied about many times) that Hearst could even sell the newspapers. This would mean that Hearst would have total control over ESPN, A&E and Lifetime, which would allow them to further integrate their cable nets and ABC without corporate red tape...in other words, get ready for occasional Lifetime movies and Live PD specials on ABC in addition to the various ESPN crossovers to ABC including a potential move of Monday Night Football back to ABC (where it should have remained). It does not necessarily mean Hearst would have to sell its non-ABC stations though...I could actually see Hearst keeping WBAL and flipping it to ABC since they've owned that station from the very beginning...1948 to be exact, which would make selling WBAL too bittersweet for Hearst to do just to buy a major broadcast network. They really could care less if Scripps objects since it is a major ABC affiliate group, WMAR is not a very strong performer for ABC and Scripps already owns a number of NBC stations including WTMJ and WPTV. Not to mention the fate of Hearst's indie station in Tampa, WMOR, which either could be sold to Scripps and paired with their ABC station WFTS or paired with WFTS should Scripps flip it to Hearst in exchange for some non-ABC Hearst stations like KCRA/Sacramento and WESH/Orlando. Also, ABC has nowhere near the O&O gravitas that CBS, Fox and NBC have (albeit inflated by Telemundo in the latter), so if they're going to boost the distribution of its Localish diginet and potentially others as well, making a major play for O&Os could be the smart thing to do. And if Warren Buffett wants to get involved with his money like he did when CapCities swallowed up ABC with a (giant) big gulp and flipped two of their CBS affiliates to ABC, he might even dangle WPLG as a carrot to the stick, which would make Miami a five-O&O market (including the two Spanish behemoths based in Miami). That is what the course of action should be, but it's just my two cents. Capeesh? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 3 hours ago, SS8609 said: Also, ABC has nowhere near the O&O gravitas that CBS, Fox and NBC have (albeit inflated by Telemundo in the latter), so if they're going to boost the distribution of its Localish diginet and potentially others as well, making a major play for O&Os could be the smart thing to do. And if Warren Buffett wants to get involved with his money like he did when CapCities swallowed up ABC with a (giant) big gulp and flipped two of their CBS affiliates to ABC, he might even dangle WPLG as a carrot to the stick, which would make Miami a five-O&O market (including the two Spanish behemoths based in Miami). O&O gravitas doesn't matter anymore. Nobody's buying new stations except for FOX and that's mainly to get more money out of areas where they have NFL rights. If anything, O&O's might be sold off if they're not viable anymore but I don't see Disney selling ABC or FOX selling to Disney and I'll be surprised if they do. Also any talk of WPLG as an ABC O&O is simply pure fantasy. Just because NBC & CBS own O&O's in Miami does not mean that it's an O&O market just like Boston isn't an O&O market. Think of it from a business perspective, not from a "fantasy TV" perspective. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-244585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 937 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Bump for ABC layoffs https://t.co/pt5q731Dxn?amp=1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-254135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2428 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Never expected to re-boost this thread, but Iger's back, Chapek's out, effective immediately (obviously a thread title change needed). 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-280033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 54 minutes ago, mrschimpf said: Never expected to re-boost this thread, but Iger's back, Chapek's out, effective immediately (obviously a thread title change needed). that is... unexpected but good news regardless. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-280035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1519 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I thought I heard a shoe drop somewhere... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-280036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 937 Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Iger just announced Disney will seek 7,000 job cuts, $5.5 billion in cost reduction overall. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1519 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Someone want to rename this thread? The current title isn't really appropriate anymore. I'm thinking "Disney's A Tale of Two Bobs" would work... 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4368 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Bob threw the other Bob under the bus during that conference call, big time. ( h/t @channel2) https://deadline.com/2023/02/bob-iger-says-espn-not-for-sale-1235253913/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4368 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Well, ESPN won't be on the block, but Iger all but telegraphed that Disney is close to offloading their majority stake in Hulu. Quote Pressed by (CNBC) host David Faber on whether he’d be interested if Comcast CEO Brian Roberts inquired about buying the Disney stake, (Bob) Iger said, “We will be open minded.” Faber noted that the going assumption has been that Disney would buy the remaining stake in Hulu. “And I think I am suggesting that that is not necessarily the case,” Iger said. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Myron Falwell said: Well, ESPN won't be on the block, but Iger all but telegraphed that Disney is close to offloading their majority stake in Hulu. man they should just sell 33% to Fox Corp. and call it a day. much easier than offloading an investment you spent millions of dollars on. Edited February 9, 2023 by TVLurker Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvtime07 252 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Myron Falwell said: Well, ESPN won't be on the block, but Iger all but telegraphed that Disney is close to offloading their majority stake in Hulu. Disney definitely owns a significant amount of brands, so if they do sell-off Hulu, they can re-route content from FX, ABC, Freeform, 20th Century, and Searchlight to Disney+, that's what they've been doing internationally. Makes you wonder if Universal would want to go all-in on Hulu and ditch Peacock altogether. I feel like most people forget Disney has partial ownership of A&E Networks (50%) and VICE Media (16%), I wonder if any of those will be re-evaluated at this time, or if they're fine being silent partners with those entities, those two ventures haven't been really integrating under Disney, I'm surprised ABC News hasn't partnered with Vice News on projects. 6 minutes ago, TVLurker said: man they should just sell 33% to Fox Corp. and call it a day. much easier than offloading an investment you spent millions of dollars on. I do wonder if Fox would invest in some of Hulu again, they did recently renew their relationship with them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/fox-renews-deal-to-put-prime-time-shows-on-disney-s-hulu-service Edited February 9, 2023 by tvtime07 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17695-bob-iger-hes-back-and-this-time-hes-mad/page/2/#findComment-283097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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