Background/Financial
This company offered a bridge loan of $25B.
Who is JPMorgan
This person served as Uria Investment's portfolio manager.
Who is Janey Frank?
AT&T had an estimated amount of wireless subscribers in the US in 2016, making it the world's largest telecom company.
What is 135M?
This internet giant merged with Time Warner during the dot-com bubble of 2000, and withdrew in 2009 after massive losses.
What is AOL?
This HBO flagship TV show, winning multiple awards and distinctions in the 2010s.
What is Game of Thrones?
This AT&T CEO held a joint press conference with Bewkes to justify the acquisition.
Who is Randall Stephenson?
This Time Warner subsidiary generated revenue from subscription services and content authorization, and was know for prestige TV.
What is HBO?
In 2014, this company offered $80B for time Warner and was rejected.
What is 21st Century Fox?
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What is Fox?
This business segment was AT&T's largest revenue driver.
What is distribution infrastructure?
This portfolio firm held a significant amount of AT&T stock.
Who is Uria Investment?
This publication mocked the deal by saying the first rule of M&A is "don't do a deal with Time Warner."
What is Fortune?
AT&T paid $48.5 billion for this satellite TV provider in 2015, making it the nation's largest pay-tv company.
What is DIRECTV?
These three streaming platforms disrupted traditional TV.
Who are Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime?
This inventor founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1880, the ancestor of AT&T.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Where is AT&T located?
What is Dallas?
In 1996, Time Warner merged with this company, which was the largest channel television operator at the time and owned CNN.
What is Turner Broadcasting System?
According to Forbes, AT&T's return on invested capital after the deal would be this percentage, barely above its pre-deal ROIC of 4.6%.
What is 4.7%?
These four brothers (Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack) started their first studio on Sunset Boulevard in 1918.
Who are the Warner brothers?
Comcast acquired this company at a 32.3x EBITDA multiple.
What is DreamWorks animation?
Verizon acquired this company's core portal and search engine businesses for $4.8B in February 2017.
What is Yahoo?