We're entering an era where delivery platforms mean less and less to an audience. The consolidation of these networks within the broadcast business speaks to the consolidation of power within the hands of station owners and the general entertainment conglomerates, but underneath that is a fundamental sea change in the way younger consumers experience media. They won't feel limited, because they can reach out in so many ways to get content. We're not in an age anymore where content distribution is limited to broadcast stations.
Quotes about conglomerates (16 Quotes)
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously It's a beautiful world all right.
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
The numbers look really good. You're not seeing those numbers at any of the other media conglomerates.
Station ownership rules could constrain certain buyers like CBS and NWS, which own a large number of TV stations. However, we believe it's possible that UVN could spin-off or sell the TV station business separately from the networks or the conglomerates.
Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.
There are only two or three of the top 10 conglomerates that are making money. A conglomerate has to bring more than the sum of its parts, or it's just a holding company.
The issue is whether a few large conglomerates will be granted content control. Will we still be able to get local news and clashing views
This is a time when you really start to favor industrial conglomerates overall, so if news would turn on GE and Tyco International, that could even be interesting because they're all out there in the same group. But right now 3M actually has the best fundamentals and so that's why we highlight that one,
The fact remains that the cost of admission -- that is the value of these franchises -- has risen to such a degree that in most situations, the leagues have outgrown the family ownership situations. My opinion is ... you are going to see a lot of large conglomerates participating in professional sports.
Star salaries are rising, production costs are rising, and major studios are owned by media conglomerates that are not necessarily doing well,
If we permit more takeovers, such as ATT and BellSouth, we will eventually see a further shrinking of the number of conglomerates dominating our local and national media.
Big studio conglomerates are concerned about the bottom line, not awards. It used to be that a studio would make a movie that appealed both commercially and artistically. That's not the case now.
These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.