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Derek Baine

Monterey
As seen in: Forbes, Flipboard, S&P Global, NewsBreak, Forbes España, BEAMSTART, Business Post Examiner
Derek C. W. Baine has 30 years of experience analyzing the media. After 27 years at Kagan/S&P Global, he is now Managing Director at Media Forecasting Experts.
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Byron Allen Bids $10 Billion For Some Disney Cable Networks And ABC

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By Derek Baine
| Forbes Verified
The Walt Disney Company hit it out of the ballpark when it received a bid for cable networks FX, Nat Geo and broadcast network ABC for $10 billion from Byron Allen. As I have written repeatedly on my blog, the cable network industry has been in decline for many years but most recently its problems have been exacerbated by the writers and actors guilds strikes, which has resulted in a dearth of fresh content on cable and broadcast networks.
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Charter’s Spectrum Upends Cable Network Industry Model With Disney Deal

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By Derek Baine
| Forbes Verified
Historically large cable network owners require multichannel operators to take all of their channels or nothing. However, Spectrum changed this industry norm by getting the Walt Disney Company to drop carriage of five cable networks as well as allow them to offer some streaming services to Charter Communications Spectrum video customers.
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Charter Communications Proposes New Video Paradigm : Disney Says No

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By Derek Baine
| Forbes Verified
Cable network stocks tanked yesterday on the news that the Walt Disney Company was unable to reach a carriage agreement with the nation’s number 2 cable operator Charter Communications . Shares in Warner Bros Discovery were hit much worse than Disney, down 12.0% to $11.56 while Disney fell 2.44% to $81.64.
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