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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:36:01 David Rosenthal And they read the news that Comcast, the Philadelphia based cable company,
- ▶ 1:36:10 David Rosenthal Is making a hostile takeover bid to acquire Disney for fifty four billion dollars in Comcast stock.
- ▶ 1:37:18 David Rosenthal Why does Comcast want to buy Disney?
- ▶ 1:37:20 David Rosenthal They sense this opening, this weakness, and wouldn't it be amazing if Comcast could all of a sudden acquire its most important supplier in ESPN that has all of this leverage over them.
- ▶ 1:39:37 David Rosenthal Headquarters of Comcast.
- ▶ 1:40:15 David Rosenthal Meanwhile, Comcast stock has been falling.
- ▶ 1:40:18 David Rosenthal So a few weeks later, Comcast formally withdraws their bid.
- ▶ 2:33:54 David Rosenthal Yeah, this is part of the backdrop happening during the Save Disney campaign, the Comcast offer, the shareholder proxy vote,
- ▶ 3:15:38 Ben Gilbert That causes Comcast to go, huh.
- ▶ 3:15:59 David Rosenthal Comcast once again.
- ▶ 3:16:12 Ben Gilbert That's a free nineteen billion for Fox shareholders because Comcast lobbed in the bid.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:32 Ben Gilbert It was Universal, which was owned by NBC, which is now owned by Comcast.