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Sliding doors - what if Disney had bought TimeWarner?

A huge what-if was very close to being a reality.

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Dan Barrett
May 25, 2021
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An interesting story over at the New York Times today references a phone call that then-Disney CEO Bob Iger made:

In October 2016, shortly before Time Warner and AT&T announced their deal, Bob Iger, the head of Disney at the time, placed a call to Jeff Bewkes, the chief of Time Warner, according to two people intimately familiar with those details. The D…

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