{"id":576,"date":"2018-06-13T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=576"},"modified":"2018-06-13T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:40:09","slug":"atts-time-warner-merger-kicks-off-a-new-era-of-streaming-video-monopolies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/atts-time-warner-merger-kicks-off-a-new-era-of-streaming-video-monopolies\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T\u2019s Time Warner merger kicks off a new era of streaming-video monopolies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yeYBSf\">Today,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/6\/12\/17452870\/att-time-warner-merger-decision-judge\">the US District Court for the District of Columbia<\/a>\u00a0cleared the way for the world\u2019s largest telecom to buy the world\u2019s third-largest entertainment company, kicking off a new era in how content gets distributed online.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ye2eok\">Pending appeal, AT&amp;T will now be able to purchase Time Warner for $85 billion, bringing subsidiaries like CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. movie studios along for the ride. Before today, AT&amp;T\u2019s holdings were mostly confined to distributing information, either through wireline internet, wireless phone service, or broadcast satellite TV. Now, it will own a major stake in some of the largest companies producing that content, with major implications for anyone trying to stream video online.<\/p>\n<p id=\"koYmau\">The ruling will have an immediate effect on some of AT&amp;T\u2019s cable competitors, too. On Monday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/06\/11\/comcast-announcing-fox-bid-on-wednesday-if-att-time-warner-approved.html\">CNBC reported<\/a>\u00a0that Comcast was preparing to bid for 21st Century Fox if the AT&amp;T deal went through, playing off a more permissive judicial atmosphere for major content acquisitions. Disney has already bid for the studio, and it\u2019s still unclear which company will actually end up owning it, but the overall point is hard to miss. After Verizon bought AOL and Comcast bought NBCUniversal, carriers are very much in the content business. The only question is how they\u2019re planning to press their new advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today,\u00a0the US District Court for the District of Columbia\u00a0cleared the way for the world\u2019s largest telecom to buy the world\u2019s third-largest entertainment company, kicking off a new era in how content gets distributed online. Pending appeal, AT&amp;T will now be able to purchase Time Warner for $85 billion, bringing subsidiaries like CNN, HBO, and Warner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-how-to","category-mobile","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}