Posted on 10/22/2016 6:22:57 AM PDT by cgbg
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: ssolow@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2016-01-19 16:04
Subject: Re: charter-time/warner
See no reason to have a view at this point. Don't think there is any pressure to oppose and make this another example of consolidation; on the other hand no upside in supporting.
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Sara Solow wrote: >
John, > >
After you met with them -- I spent about an hour with the woman from > Charter hearing about the Time-Warner merger / their business model / their > policy requests. > > I'm curious what your impression was. > > I actually thought the business case for their merger was pretty > sympathetic. They offer a good product (minimum 60 meg download speeds!) > to virtually all rural consumers, and if the merger fails, they will go > under. Post-merger with Time Warner, the combined company would have about > 21% of the national market for broadband -- a fair amount, but not as big > as ATT-Direct TV. They don't overlap with Time Warner anywhere > currently. They spent $5 bn last year upgrading their networks to offer a > better product than the telcos - which they currently do. > > I also found it interesting that there hasnt been ANY congressional > hearing on > this. Skepticism much lower. > > The FCC is likely to rule in March, so we'll have to have a response by > then. > > Anyway, those were some of my impressions. > > Yours, > Sara >
I guess silence is consent when it comes to major media consolidation.
Re media consolidation:
I have a perverse thought. I’m surprised that Dems have been so short-sighted about stock investments for pensions. They have had visions of financing the government through forced savings and bond purchases, because Government Bonds are “so safe.”
They’ve accused GWB and others of being wrong-headed on partial privatization of SS through investment in corporations. But, they are being short sighted here.
If the government invested in companies through SS, it would eventually have major, or even controlling interests in many corporations, including media corporations. So, pension privatization would ultimately lead to government control of private industry and media. Nominally, the economic interests would be held by individual accounts, but the voting would be done by government SS Fund trustees.
I’m surprised the Leftists haven’t been all over this!
Now ATT is seeking to merge with Time-Warner. I guess anti-trust laws and anti- monopoly statutes don’t exists for favored corporations anymore. And the commies say the Republicans are all about big business.
The sucker knew he was getting inside info on a merger----that's illegal.
Having inside merger info can make someone rich.
Easy to find out who among the Clinton Class bought shares.
Corruption is non-partisan. Is this a great country or what? :-(
“policy requests.” bow down to your technocrats!
Leonidio Holdings, LLC, is listed w/ an address at his daughter's Megan Rouse’s Shannon Court home in Dublin, California. Rouse operates Megan Rouse Financial Planning from that same address.
The inference is to money laundering, perhaps tax evasion. Suggests that Megan Rouse's father, John Podesta, hid stocks connected to Russia.
NOTE A company designated "LLC" usually means that the principles do not want their names used on bank transactions.
Documents show that Podesta received 75,000 shares of Joule Unlimited Technologies......an outfit which was linked to alleged money laundering by the Russian government, according to media reports.
Podesta is Clinton’s 2016 campaign chair. He also served as Bill Clinton's COS....and as Counsellor to Obama.
You may be right—but you might want to research the timeline of the request for FCC approval before making the claim.
MSM reporters won’t do it—but you can!
He has such sad eyes.
How much were the shares WORTH??
HAT TIP WIKI
Total assets
Increase US$63.84 billion (2015)[2]
Total equity
Decrease US$23.61 billion (2015)[2]
Time Warner Inc. (TWI, also known as Time Warner, at one former interval named AOL Time Warner, stylized as TimeWarner since 2003) is an American multinational media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City.[5]
It is currently the world’s third largest television networks and filmed TV & entertainment company in terms of revenue (after Comcast and The Walt Disney Company), and at one time was the world’s largest media conglomerate.[6][7][8][9]
Time Warner was formed in 1990 through the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. The current company consists largely of the assets of the former Warner Communications, as well as HBO (a Time Inc. subsidiary prior to the Warner merger) and the assets of Turner Broadcasting (acquired in 1996).
Time Warner currently has major operations in film and television, with a limited amount of publishing operations. Among its assets are New Line Cinema, Home Box Office, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, Warner Bros., CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment, Cartoon Network Studios, Esporte Interativo, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and as of August 2016, it owns 10% of Hulu.[10]
In the past, other major divisions of Time Warner included Time Inc., AOL, Time Warner Cable, Warner Books, and Warner Music Group. All of these operations were either sold to other investors or spun off as independent companies between 2004 and 2014.
As of October 21, 2016, AT&T was reported to be in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner.[11]
Sad day in hell when congress has all the evidence they ever wanted in a case and will never do anything about it.
And we are supposed to follow any law created by them?
Please don't give them any ideas. That's the slow lane to a fascist, totalitarian state sort, of like Jasper Fforde's Golieth Corporation in his books.
Thanks for the credit, but I’m sure it’s been thought of; it’s so obvious.
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