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...On Monday, Discovery Communications — whose namesake channel hosts the annual Shark Week extravaganza — unveiled a $14.6bn takeover of Scripps Networks Interactive (press release here)....
...Kevin Tsujihara, chief executive of Warner Bros Entertainment, tries to assuage the fears of cinema owners: “I assure you,” he says, “we are not going to let a third party or middleman come between us.”...
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...Their private company, Advance Publications, is poised to become the largest shareholder in the nation’s second-largest cable operator, if Charter Communications’ $10.4bn bid for Advance’s Bright House Networks...
...On the opposing side of the argument is a clutch of companies that are best described as the “pipe guys” – broadband and cable groups such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications, as well...
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