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Amazon to buy MGM for $8 billion

June 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Anthony

Amazon is buying classic film/TV studio MGM for $8 billion, in a bid to shore up Prime Video.

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AT&T to spin-off WarnerMedia; Warner to merge with… Discovery?

May 21, 2021December 10, 2021 Anthony

AT&T plans to spin off WarnerMedia into its own stand-alone company. WarnerMedia will also merge with Discovery, the home of “Shark Week.”

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The T-Mobile and Sprint merger is complete

April 3, 2020December 10, 2021 Anthony

On Wednesday, T-Mobile finalized its merger with Sprint, reducing the number of major mobile companies in the US from four to three (AT&T, Verizon, and

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CBS and Viacom to merge into a single company, “ViacomCBS”

August 14, 2019February 20, 2022 Anthony

Viacom and CBS plan to merge into one company, “ViacomCBS.”

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Time Warner is now known as WarnerMedia; also: what does AT&T now own?

June 18, 2018December 10, 2021 Anthony

AT&T certainly moved quickly after a judge threw out the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit over its Time Warner buyout. On Friday, AT&T announced that Time

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Judge approves AT&T’s merger with Time Warner; Comcast might try to outbid Disney for Fox’s assets

June 13, 2018December 10, 2021 Anthony

On Tuesday, a federal judge handed down an approval for AT&T’s merger with Time Warner. The Justice Department opposed this merger, arguing the resulting company

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T-Mobile to buy Sprint in $26.5 billion deal

April 30, 2018December 10, 2021 Anthony

On Sunday, news came that Spring and T-Mobile will be merging, forming a combined company valued at $146 billion out of the nation’s third- and

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Disney to buy most of 21st Century Fox for $52 billion

December 18, 2017March 14, 2022 Anthony

After much speculation, it’s finally come to pass. Last week, Disney and 21st Century Fox announced that the former will buy most of the latter’s

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Disney in (stalled) talks to buy most of Fox’s assets

November 13, 2017December 10, 2021 Anthony

News came last week that Disney’s been in talks with 21st Century Fox to buy most of their assets, most prominently the famed 20th Century

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AT&T to buy Time Warner for $85 billion

October 24, 2016December 10, 2021 Anthony

It had been talked about over the past week, but was officially announced on Saturday. Longtime telephone and internet giant AT&T will be buying media

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