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...insist that won't be a problem. And he may be right for a different reason: the history of megamergers is that they tend not to work as planned. "When you create these oversize companies, they become vulnerable by definition," says Porter Bibb, a senior investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann. Big firms can't react to small opportunities, so new businesses pop up to fill the void. Some inevitably grow enough to challenge the giants. Indeed, every merger phase in the U.S. in the past 30 years has been followed by a period of divestitures as companies retreated to their...
...early 1980s. And overall network viewership continues to dwindle: the prime-time ratings on ABC, CBS and NBC have fallen 47% over the same period. "What this shows you is that it's not football that is the draw," says Porter Bibb, a media analyst with Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., "but that the networks are struggling for survival...
...successful, likable kids. Amy was a talented artist and worked at a ymca camp last summer--"a dream daughter," her lawyer said. Brian was co-captain of the high school soccer team and on the varsity golf team. "He was popular--he had a lot of friends," says Brian Thalmann, who went to Ramapo High School with the couple. "She was nice too. No one can believe these are the same people. No one knows what to think...
...Universal Studios to Seagram last April for $5.7 billion. "The real significance of Schulhof's ouster is that it is the last nail in the coffin of synergy between hardware and software," says analyst Porter Bibb, who follows the entertainment industry for the firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. "You can count the days until the movie business is sold...
...this a vote of confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock...