Word: logsdon
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...million shares that Time Warner proposes to issue for Turner would reduce the value of their investments. Others point out that the deal would bring Time Warner $2.9 billion in new revenues and $600 million in fresh cash flow. "Time Warner isn't paying a stupid price," says Jeffrey Logsdon of the Seidler Companies investment firm in Los Angeles. "It's a healthy price." For Levin and Time Warner, it's the price of being No. 1 again...
...There are still a few hoops to jump through," says Jeffrey Logsdon, entertainment analyst for the Los Angeles-based Seidler Companies. "Malone is a big hoop. A role for Ted is a big hoop. But if it works, Time Warner will be such a large entity that it shrinks the universe of who can bother you. You eliminate three-quarters of the buyers who could attempt a takeover." Notable exception: General Electric...
Turner and Malone are certainly formidable adversaries when they choose to be. But maybe this time Levin can harness the killers as his own hired guns. "Turner and Levin are smart enough to know they need each other," says analyst Logsdon. If Michael Ovitz, the ultrapowerful chief of CAA, could go to work for Disney's Michael Eisner, then surely Ted Turner could take a seat on Gerald Levin's TW board as a buccaneer emeritus, and do his vision thing. "Ted isn't someone who comes in the office every day and sits at his desk," says...
...technology poses a serious threat to Blockbuster's future. "Why else would Huizenga practically give away the store?" asks Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "He's giving up hard, cold cash for stock, and he's accepting a smaller post in a much bigger company." Says Jeffrey Logsdon, who follows the company for Seidler Amdec: "This is an exit strategy for Huizenga. He gets to unload a declining business before it falls off the cliff...
After five months of brawling, it finally seems as though the end is in sight. While he stopped short of declaring outright victory for the home- shopping channel, "Diller will not lose any sleep over this new bid," says analyst Logsdon. If Diller does not alter his own bid (most observers believe he will not) and Viacom fails to sweeten its package by early next week, then it remains for Paramount's shareholders to vote with their shares of stock. Though QVC and its advisers radiated confidence at the end of last week, they were not above taking...