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Stefan.De.Machtige on 23 October 2016
Chris Hu said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Hopefully regulators block the deal.

But when was the last time regulators actually blocked a big deal they didn't do anything about Anheuser-Bush InBev and SABMiller merging and they now control 25% of the worlds beer market (even bigger in NA since the big three Miller, Coors and Budweiser are now owned by one company).

Noone will really oppose it. Washington bows to it's corporate masters since 1913.



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WagnerPaiva on 23 October 2016

I assume it comes with a lot of real state as well and some equipament, which probably get around the 3 billion dollar value.
This means intangible assets bought by 82 billion dollars! So very interesting.
That includes names of brands, magazines, papers, entertainment fanchises, things like that.
I assume everything generates around 2-3 billion worldwide in regular profit, without any kind of investiments.
I guess that Harry Potter movie rights are in the mix, this is probably a 10-20 billion dollars profit oportunity.
Well, seems like the whole deal is far from being a bargain, but AT&T must have a business plan to take the best of all of this.
I wonder if all the rights of Batman universe belong to Warner, there is a billion dollar amusement park here in Brasil (called Hopi Hari) that has a DC comics land with rides based in Batman, Penguin, Superman...

I guess these type of places generate a decent amount of revenue.



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Chris Hu on 23 October 2016

I'm pretty sure that place just pays Time Warner a licensing fee.  The same thing applies to the Six Flags theme parks which are no longer owned by Time Warner but still have rides based on DC comics.