Media Consolidation

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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"[When Disney bought ABC] I was torn. I felt a little kinship with ABC because of all those years that we were on the air with them… [but] I wasn’t sure we needed to do that. You know, it’s a question of personal taste at a certain point: do you want to be the biggest fish in the pond or do want to be a really beautiful fish in your own pond? And I was afraid, I still am, of the company getting so big that it doesn’t have control of itself." - Roy E. Disney, Animation Executive

Interviewees discuss networks merging, buying each other, and being bought by corporations.

Highlights

Roy Disney on Disney's acquisition of ABC in the 1990s

02:41

Vivian Brown on NBC acquiring The Weather Channel

03:33

Tom Freston on Viacom taking over MTV

01:00

Roger King on the King World merger with CBS/Viacom, and on working with Sumner M. Redstone to make the deal

04:59

Nina Tassler on the merger of Lorimar Television and Warner Bros. Television and her concurrent move from Director, Movies and Miniseries to Vice President, Drama Development at the newly merged company

03:12

Grant Tinker on Jack Welch buying RCA

11:05

Who talked about this topic

Erik Barnouw

Erik Barnouw on his feelings about media consolidation

03:17

Ralph M. Baruch

Ralph M. Baruch on the buyout of CBS by Viacom

01:05

Bernie Brillstein

Bernie Brillstein on the state of television and deal-making in 2002; on the business of show business

09:11

Vivian Brown

Vivian Brown on NBC acquiring The Weather Channel

03:33

Jim Cantore

Jim Cantore on NBC's acquisition of The Weather Channel

02:26

Charles Cappleman

Charles Cappleman on the consolidation of Viacom, CBS, and Infinity, and on Mel Karmazin and Leslie Moonves

04:30

Glenn Gordon Caron

Glenn Gordon Caron on plugging "Memoirs Of A Geisha" on Medium (and the plight of being created by the parent company of one network and airing on another network)

01:49

Leo Chaloukian

Leo Chaloukian on his thoughts on media consolidation

02:07

Ann Curry

Ann Curry on the Comcast-NBC merger, and on her interactions with new executives at NBC and NBC News

02:37

Roy E. Disney

Roy Disney on Disney's acquisition of ABC in the 1990s

02:41

George Faber

George Faber on Sumner Redstone and Viacom's ascent

06:03

Richard Frank

Richard Frank on seeing the future of new media and vertical integration

04:46

Tom Freston

Tom Freston on Viacom taking over MTV

01:00

Michael Fuchs

Michael Fuchs on the merger of Warner Bros. and Time Inc.

08:15

Michael Fuchs on the effect of the Time Inc./Warner Bros. merger on HBO's programming

03:15

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson on acquiring ESPN and starting A&E

02:09

Leonard H. Goldenson on merging with Capital Cities

02:04

Leonard H. Goldenson on Disney acquiring ABC

00:29

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr.

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on the proposed merger between ABC and the DuMont Network

02:20

Stanley Hubbard

Stanley Hubbard on Hubbard Broadcasting acquiring television stations in the '50s

07:39

Stanley Hubbard on the then-current push toward deregulation in broadcasting

02:36

Herb Jellinek

Herb Jellinek on the sale of ABC to Capital Cities in 1985, and on his retirement from ABC

05:42

Herb Jellinek on Leonard H. Goldenson's role at ABC after the sale to Capital Cities

01:52

Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson on Viacom's acquisition of BET

05:01

Michael King

Michael King on King World's merger with CBS/Viacom

07:26

Michael King on his role at King World after the CBS/Viacom merger

03:26

Roger King

Roger King on the King World merger with CBS/Viacom, and on working with Sumner M. Redstone to make the deal

04:59

Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel on media consolidation and its impact on the news

02:14

Richard Lewis

Richard Lewis on Revue/MCA becoming Universal Televison

02:38

Warren Littlefield

Warren Littlefield on General Electric acquiring NBC in 1986

05:19

Margaret Loesch

Margaret Loesch on how media consolidation impacts children's programming

04:01

A.C. Lyles

A.C. Lyles on Gulf and Western taking over Paramount

03:57

Leslie Moonves

Leslie Moonves on his role as CBS network president

03:04

Leslie Moonves on the changing ownership of CBS over his tenure

06:15

Thomas W. Moore

Thomas W. Moore on Capital Cities takeover of ABC

02:26

Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy on Capital Cities acquisition of ABC

07:24

Thomas Murphy on the early days of Capital Cities/ABC

02:23

Thomas Murphy on Capital Cities getting involved with cable

03:41

Thomas Murphy on the then-relationship between cable and broadcast outlets

02:20

Thomas Murphy on how Disney's acquisition of ABC came about

05:39

Thomas Murphy on how the deal with Disney to take over ABC was consummated

06:10

Marty Pasetta

Marty Pasetta on how television has changed due to technology and business

02:33

Frederick S. Pierce

Frederick S. Pierce on network ownership of series and movies

00:55

Frederick S. Pierce on the formation of ABC Video and ABC's acquisition of ESPN and other cable networks

12:20

Frederick S. Pierce on Capital Cities buyout of ABC and leaving the network

06:16

Ward Quaal

Ward Quaal on media consolidation

06:28

Sumner Redstone

Sumner Redstone on the Paramount battle and Viacom becoming the number one software-driven media company in the world

08:55

Sumner Redstone on media consolidation

01:33

Sumner Redstone on Viacom's acquisition of CBS, and on dealing with Mel Karmazin

05:12

Sumner Redstone on negotiating with John Malone to buy BET

02:17

Sumner Redstone on if a media company can get too big

01:21

Lee Rich

Lee Rich on the changing media landscape and consolidation

02:24

Howard Rosenberg

Howard Rosenberg on media consolidation

01:09

Haim Saban

Haim Saban on Fox Kids Worldwide buying International Family Entertainment (owner of The Family Channel), in an effort to compete with Nickelodeon, creating Fox Family Worldwide

10:43

Haim Saban on Fox Family Worldwide being sold to Disney in 2001, and on the negotiations that led to the sale

06:40

Nina Shaw

NIna Shaw on responding to changes in the industry - media consolidation, etc.

01:23

Sid Sheinberg

Sid Sheinbergg on becoming President of MCA, and his view of deregulation and media consolidation

04:57

Sid Sheinberg on NBC's acquisition of Universal

01:30

Sid Sheinberg on media consolidation in the '80s

07:46

Sid Sheinberg on Matsushita's acquisition of MCA

14:42

Frank Stanton

Frank Stanton on the impact of media consolidation on programming

02:02

Frank Stanton on the downside of media consolidation

01:42

William Tankersley

William Tankersley on how media consolidation has affected the industry

00:38

Nina Tassler

Nina Tassler on the merger of Lorimar Television and Warner Bros. Television and her concurrent move from Director, Movies and Miniseries to Vice President, Drama Development at the newly merged company

03:12

Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel on his opinion of television

02:14

Grant Tinker

Grant Tinker on Jack Welch buying RCA

11:05

Ted Turner

Ted Turner on acquiring MGM

00:28

Ted Turner on merging with Time Warner

02:52

Ted Turner on media consolidation and his thoughts on the future

01:56

Ted Turner on acquiring Castle Rock and New Line Entertainment

03:11

Ted Turner on the dangers of media consolidation

01:27

Dean Valentine

Dean Valentine on the Disney/ABC merger and the main players, including Michael Eisner and Tom Murphy

03:21

Av Westin

Av Westin on the Capital Cities takeover of ABC

01:37

Lauren Zalaznick

Lauren Zalaznick on being tapped by Jeff Zucker to lead the Bravo network in the wake of the NBC/Universal merger

04:36

Jeff Zucker

Jeff Zucker on the NBC-Universal merger

05:08

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