Mergers/Acquistions
/Strategic Alliances

Just as Microsoft scored an agreement to compress Disney's content, Comcast Communications made a play for Disney. This article examines how the combined events of Microsoft scoring an agreement to compress Disney’s content and Comcast’s play for Disney may have moved Microsoft's technology one step closer to becoming the Windows of digital video delivery.

This paper entitled “Media Mergers: First Step in a New Shift of Antitrust Analysis?” looks at the history of media mergers with special emphasis on Walt Disney Co. acquiring Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and Time Warner Inc. acquiring Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

This special report by The Observer (London) takes a critical look at the merger between Time Warner and AOL.

This article takes a historical look at how mergers and acquisitions have been a constant theme in the U.S. television business since its commercial beginnings. It argues that the vast majority of the dominant companies have been built by taking over other enterprises. All four of the original television networks, for example, developed as products of mergers.

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