By Cynthia Littleton. The sudden chill in the regulatory climate may fan the flames of another significant business trend. SPAC led by former CBS honcho Joe Ianniello — that are waiting to pounce on small pieces of old empires that may be sold or spun off in the near future.
WarnerMedia and Discovery will be under pressure to divest some assets, especially outside the U. Sony Pictures Entertainment during the past 18 months has started the process of cleaving off some of its international channel assets in sales to small private investment groups, including one led by two former Sony Pictures TV Intl. Speculation in the market about marquee brands that may be up for grabs is rampant.
Cable channels with subscriber bases of 50 million or more are prized because they deliver predictable revenue streams, even if the earnings are destined to shrink every year as viewers cut the cord and embrace streaming platforms. At Disney, big questions have swirled for more than a decade about how ABC and Freeform fit into the grand scheme at the Magic Kingdom, particularly in the streaming era.
NBCUniversal also has a number of established channels in its portfolio that could be an attractive package, a la E! In addition to private investors, the largest broadcast TV station owners could be contenders for channel divestitures.
Sinclair Broadcast Group is believed to have pressed Disney on the possibility of acquiring ABC and its owned-and-operated stations in the past. It would not be a surprise to see Nexstar CEO Perry Sook pick up another channel or two if an auction free-for-all emerges next year. Trending from CNET. Play audio and video files in real-time and streaming modes. MP3 Remix Player Free to try. Record custom remixes of your favorite music.
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Video playback is rapidly becoming de-rigeur on all but the smallest, cheapest players, and the EF has some interesting capabilities in this regard. Rotating the view to a landscape format helps a lot, but as the screen has a rather than a aspect ratio any material in the now standard format is cramped between black bars. On the plus side, the iPlayer compatibility works just as advertised. To put things in perspective, we have made similar complaints about other comparable players, including the otherwise wonderful 4th generation iPod Nano.
If you really want photos and video playback, our advice would be to step up a device class to something like the iPod touch or iRiver Spinn. What really counts in this class is audio performance, and here the news is — typically for Sony — good. Fans of classical music have few causes for complaint. Throw in a decent and easy to set-up FM radio and a nice little clock display function and the Sony is an appealing compact player at a very reasonable price, and a worthy rival to the new iPod Nano.
If great battery life and a solid build are more important factors, the Sony is an excellent buy. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest.
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