Press Play with Madeleine Brand
AT&T and Time Warner: The $85.4 billion deal
One of the nation’s biggest phone companies is getting hitched to one of the biggest media companies. AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion. AT&T is the largest paid-TV provider in the US, and the second largest wireless provider. Time Warner owns many of the biggest TV brands, like HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readOne of the nation’s biggest phone companies is getting hitched to one of the biggest media companies. AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion. AT&T is the largest paid-TV provider in the US, and the second largest wireless provider. Time Warner owns many of the biggest TV brands, like HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers. A lot of people are booing the merger, even Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. But AT&T says it’ll offer customers more choices.
The full episode
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One year since the Porter Ranch gas leak, what’s changed?- 0:30AT&T and Time Warner: The $85.4 billion dealYou’re reading this
- 9:23The Aliso Canyon gas leak one year later
- 26:55Maria Semple’s ‘Today Will Be Different’
- 43:07Remembering liberal icon Tom Hayden
The full episode
1 of 4One year since the Porter Ranch gas leak, what’s changed?- 0:30AT&T and Time Warner: The $85.4 billion dealYou’re reading this
- 9:23The Aliso Canyon gas leak one year later
- 26:55Maria Semple’s ‘Today Will Be Different’
- 43:07Remembering liberal icon Tom Hayden