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...shareholders but not Time Inc.'s. Without making much of a dent in the $11 billion debt incurred by the deal, Levin kept rolling the dice. He sold pieces of the new company into complex partnerships that raised billions but tied up Time Warner's best assets, including Warner Bros. studios and HBO. And instead of paying down the mortgage, Levin went out and bought a couple more cable-television companies, just as share prices in the industry were beginning to slump...
...Lassie, Levin has thrown the dice again--and this time rolled a Ted. As in Turner. Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting, sealed last week, makes the company the biggest in media, with unconsolidated sales of $21 billion. Time Warner--with holdings in film and television (including Warner Bros., HBO and Cinemax), publishing (including TIME, Book of the Month Club and Little, Brown Publishers) and music (including the Atlantic and Elektra labels)--adds to its roster such gold-plated assets as CNN, TBS, TNT, a vast film collection and some 28,500 television programs. Levin paid a golden price...
Indeed, the first order of business may be to substantially reduce Time Warner's cable-television holdings. In 1992 the company bundled its cable systems, along with Warner Bros. and HBO, into an entity called Time Warner Entertainment, and then sold 25% of it to US West, the Denver-based Baby Bell, for $2.5 billion. In doing so, the company misguidedly ceded to US West a lot of control over any big decision regarding these businesses--such as selling any of them. US West is strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect...
...best safeguard against corporate conflicts is openness and full disclosure, so readers and viewers can watch for any lapses in editorial integrity (hence the chart). Our critics pan some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...
...best safeguard against corporate conflicts is openness and full disclosure, so readers and viewers can watch for any lapses in editorial integrity (hence the chart). Our critics pan some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...