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The companies involved, at the instruction of the people who stand to benefit the most. That is, the execs and the boards. In the case of the McClatchy merger, there was also an activist investor steering KR to sell.

Money, and/or probably stock incentives. There was a lot of talk at the time about Frontier leadership getting big paydays due to the deal. It isn't like bankruptcy courts go after previous compensation of execs or board members to pay off debts. Once they got paid, the money is gone. I've...

I like the term "coerced" more than "forced." At a minimum, the Frontier execs were "incentivized." They certainly weren't performing their fiduciary responsibilities for the company. Anyone paying attention at the time could see that.

Frontier is the company that Verizon dumped their wireline business on. The debt from buying so much of Verizon's legacy business, along with some other acquisitions like Scott mentioned, is the reason they had so much debt and had to declare bankruptcy. Much of the blame lies with Frontier...

OK, perhaps a long-con fraud is a better description. We'll make another company take on a ton of debt to buy our overpriced wireline assets because someone has the brilliant idea that making data go fast through the air is somehow easier than making data go fast through cables, and we'd...

I guess VZW finally realized 5G was never going to be the panacea they thought it would be. Pretty sad that they ever thought it would be. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in our business leaders. Buying the company you sold most of your wireline assets to after they go through...

Compared to the OTA signal from my HD Homerun and Channels DVR, it looks dimmer. It is still watchable, but just looks like someone turned down the dynamic range. 🤷‍♂️

Wife is watching Big Brother on Paramount+ tonight. It definitely looks dimmer than it should.

So, it does look a little dim to me, even compared to other live channels on Paramount+. I wouldn't say it is all that bad, but just not quite right. Also, I still have not been able to get Paramount+ to switch back to my local CBS station since I switched to Google Fiber. No other apps...

Zazlav is a lawyer from the 80s. Of course he thinks he knows better than anyone else.

Yeah, I know. That is why I also pasted the first few sentences, so people got the gist. I am sure a copy will show up on MSN or Yahoo! at some point, but I didn't see one when I looked, so I posted the original article. If I post something that is paywalled, it is because I didn't find...

So years of underinvestment in anything but sports has caught up with them, and now they have to get off their butts and do something about it. Probably too late though. I do think the focus in non-premium fare makes a lot of sense, or would have. One of the reasons streaming isn't more...

I think the recent spate of successful antitrust litigation coupled with a less certain political outcome in November probably has the Venu folks unsure about whether they can beat the lawsuit in the long run.

If you know which shows you want to watch, you can look them up here to see where they stream: https://www.justwatch.com/

YMMV, but my internet goes down a whole lot less than satellite went out due to weather or cable went out for whatever reason. Of course, if it is due to a line cut, the outage could be a whole lot longer than a thunderstorm blocking signal from the sky. This has only happened once in 7 years...

If what I watched was still mostly on Dish, I'd agree it is more convenient, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. If is still is the case for you, then your setup does make most sense for you. Most of the streaming devices have an "up next" kind of feature to simplify things for...

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Not sure I can see a path to winning for Fubo unles they can prove that Disney, et. al. have intentionally undercut Fubo to drive them out of business. It will be interesting to see what they find in discovery, if the public is ever allowed to know. As for the pricing, it does feel like they...

Yep. I mainly buy from Amazon.

Guess I need to buy all the Blu-Rays I want to own in the next two years then.

Antitrust law is specifically designed to prevent companies from using their position as an upstream provider of goods and services from competing unfairly with their customers, the companies that resell, redistribute, or repackage those goods and services. This has been largely ignored by the...

If it is, that would be a change from previous seasons.

Interesting development in my house tonight: my wife watches The Challenge on Paramount+. Well, the new season has started, but it isn't available on Paramount+ in the US for some unexplained reason, and she is not happy, especially as out annual subscription just renewed. It appears to be...

My wife would prefer what you have to the "50% Sports" that she thinks out local news stations show. It is probably more like 20-25%, but she hates it, so it feels like a lot more. The station we watch covers a ton of prep sports from August-June, a LOT of college sports, not just Football...