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General Category => Financial => Topic started by: taxed on May 19, 2014, 02:20:58 AM

Title: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: taxed on May 19, 2014, 02:20:58 AM
That's a nice chunk of change...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/18/2245246/att-buying-directv-for-485-billion (http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/18/2245246/att-buying-directv-for-485-billion)

EDIT:  I posted the wrong link to the story, but same story.  I'll try to find the link about the satellite junk dodging...
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: kit saginaw on May 19, 2014, 03:34:25 AM
Seems like an okay deal which should put Comcast on the defensive...  I don't have any vested interest in any of the three at the moment.  Comcast has been trying to silence TheBlaze/Beck, allegedly
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: taxed on May 19, 2014, 12:59:04 PM
Quote from: kit saginaw on May 19, 2014, 03:34:25 AM
Seems like an okay deal which should put Comcast on the defensive...  I don't have any vested interest in any of the three at the moment.  Comcast has been trying to silence TheBlaze/Beck, allegedly.

Can you imagine an entire Beck channel mainstream?  His hour long show on Fox alone took down Van Jones, got people reading up on the founders, etc.; imagine a full channel or network.
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: supsalemgr on May 19, 2014, 02:11:33 PM
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. I have AT&T u-verse at out primary home and a local cable channel. However, at our place a little further up in the mountains I have Direct TV, but the telephone provider is a local company. How ill all this mesh?
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: CG6468 on May 19, 2014, 02:15:57 PM
Wait until you hear their charge for the Internet.
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: walkstall on May 19, 2014, 02:53:32 PM
Quote from: CG6468 on May 19, 2014, 02:15:57 PM
Wait until you hear their charge for the Internet.

Trust me the working class will pay for it.  So the 47% freeloader get it at a discount or for free. 
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: Solar on May 19, 2014, 03:40:27 PM
Quote from: taxed on May 19, 2014, 12:59:04 PM
Can you imagine an entire Beck channel mainstream?  His hour long show on Fox alone took down Van Jones, got people reading up on the founders, etc.; imagine a full channel or network.
He has one called Blaze TV, I love it!
Costs $5.00 per month and well worth every penny. Makes FOX look like....well, the RINO supporters they are. :biggrin:
Title: Re: ATT buying DirectTV for $48.5B
Post by: taxed on May 19, 2014, 04:04:11 PM
Quote from: Solar on May 19, 2014, 03:40:27 PM
He has one called Blaze TV, I love it!
Costs $5.00 per month and well worth every penny. Makes FOX look like....well, the RINO supporters they are. :biggrin:

Beck is a genius.  He is running circles around the MSM, and is penetrating the digital market.  He is doing what Air America wishes they could have done.  I can't wait to see what his media company looks like in 5 years.