Nightmare ha scritto:
Fu proprio questo lo scandalo.
Una federazione che quattro anni prima, veniva valutata 110 milioni di dollari, venne venduta per una misera somma. AOL Time Warner merda.
Va beh, vogliamo parlare di quanto si svalutò Time Warner?
Ad oggi c'è ancora qualcuno che parla di Time Warner? Furono costretti a vendere tutto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warne ... ner_merger
Transactions made since the AOL-Time Warner merger
Since the merger, a number of transactions have taken place:
World Championship Wrestling was sold to WWF Entertainment on March 23, 2001 after Jamie Kellner of TBS decided that wrestling was not in the network's best interest.
After William Hanna's death in March 2001, Hanna-Barbera was folded to Warner Bros. Animation.
The Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, and operating rights to Philips Arena were sold in mid-2003.
The fifty percent share in the cable channel Comedy Central was sold to Viacom.
Warner Music Group was sold to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. in March 2004.
AOL/Netscape's longrunning litigation against Microsoft was settled out of court.
Time Warner announced that it was shutting down its CNNfn financial information channel and disposing of its share in Google (2004).
On March 31, 2006 Time Warner sold the Time Warner Book Group to French publisher Hachette Livre, of the Lagardere group.
On February 7, 2006, a group led by corporate raider Carl Icahn and Lazard Frères CEO Bruce Wasserstein unveiled a 343-page proposal calling for the breakup of Time Warner into four companies and stock buybacks totaling approximately $20 billion. On February 17, 2006, the Icahn-lead group agreed with Time Warner to not contest the re-election of TW's slate of board members at the 2006 shareholders meeting. In exchange for the Icahn group's cooperation, Time Warner will buy back up to $20 billion of stock, nominate more independent members to the board of directors, cut $1 billion of costs by 2007, and continue discussions with the Icahn group over their proposal, particularly on the future of Time Warner Cable.
On February 23, 2006, Turner South, a regional sports and entertainment network in the south, was sold to News Corp's Fox Cable Networks group. The network later became SportSouth.
On September 12, 2006, Time Inc. announced that Time4 Media, a group of men's interest magazines including Popular Science and Outdoor Life was to be put up for sale. The sale included 18 publications (including three parenting-related titles), with the eventual buyer being the Bonnier Magazine Group.
In the fall of 2006, the Atlanta Braves were sold to Liberty Media in a deal that returned vast amounts of Liberty-owned Time Warner stock back into the company's folds. This sale was made official on May 17, 2007.
In the summer of 2008, the Reader's Digest Association sold QSP to Time Warner subsidiary Time Inc. for $110 million.[31]
In March 2009, Time Warner Cable was divested from the company in a spin-out.[32]
On August 26, 2010, in Chile, Time Warner Company took the full control of Chilevisión, a channel owned by Chile's President Sebastián Piñera.
On March 6, 2013, Time Warner announced the divestment of Time Inc. as a separate publicly traded company.