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New Suitors For NBC Universal And Its Botoxed Anchors Revealed; Myopic Men Of Mistaste Include Malone And Murdoch
Did Comcast think it can poach the crack Power Lunch (no pun intended) CNBC team all on its own? Turns out the answer is a flat out no. According to Reuters not only will GE likely exit its Comcast venture within 4 years (apparently the Comcast deal is virtually a certainty now, much to the chagrin of the Squawk Box team et al), but others media conglomerates are also considering getting involved in what could soon become a heated bidding war for the ample assets partially hidden by various grotesquely stretched sweaters. Reuters reports:
Under the proposal, NBC Universal would become a joint venture 51 percent owned by Comcast and 49 percent by GE. It would be valued at around $30 billion. Comcast would contribute around $4 billion to $6 billion in cash as well as its collection of cable networks to pay for its stake.
The deal has involved a lot of back and forth negotiations between both sides.
But GE, which has been pressured by investors to offload its 80 percent stake in NBC Universal, is considering a host of proposals for the unit, as partner Vivendi SA (VIV.PA) explores whether to sell its 20 percent stake.
GE has negotiated a redemption option, that will give it the right to redeem all or part of its stake in the so-called 'newco' in exchange for cash at the three-and-a-half year mark and at a seven-year mark, the sources said. They spoke anonymously because the talks are private.
The new NBC Universal is expected to be able generate enough cash to pay down $9 billion in debt that would be added to its books as part of the deal, and purchase the rest of the company from GE.
And just because Rupert has no desire to see the World Leader in Propaganda News depart for the 120 mile one-way trip to Philadelphia, he may just do away with his current Fox Business venture and throw in his 2 cents into the bidding hat, ant-trust regulation be damned. After all Goldman already owns Canadian media; it is only fitting that an Australian would control US business news.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) and John Malone's Liberty Media Corp (LINTA.O) are also interested in NBC Universal, though neither has approached GE so far, CNBC reported, citing sources.
News Corp, which owns the Fox cable network and local TV stations, had been seen as a less likely bidder, analysts have said, because taking a stake in NBC might raise antitrust concerns with the U.S. government.
The silver lining: neither Comcast, nor Liberty, nor News Corp, has a half a trillion finance subsidiary that has the second worst balance sheet after AIG. As such, it just may happen that CNBC will at some point soon return to providing a balanced and unbiased coverage of the markets. However, as Gasparino would say, the situation is fluid: don't turn that TV on just yet.
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Is this a victory for the bulls?
Bear Sterns is fine; ITS FINE GODDAMIT !!!!1
Cheeky, ever been to Macedonia? Looking for places to visit when I am in the area...
-Michael
Not in a while; but make sure you visit lake Ohrid when you're there; Italy aint got shit comparing to that place; absolutely stunning. Oh, and make sure you eat as much as you can while you're there; the food is absolutely FANTASTIC. And the people are awesome; just don't say anything about Greece or Greeks; they will kill you :D. And if you are into for an adventure visit Shutka, the largest Roma city in Europe and the BEST place for a party on the face of the Earth. Also, they love Americans, so you should be ok.
Bear Sterns is fine; ITS FINE GODDAMIT !!!!1
I finished House of Cards 2 weeks ago. I'm halfway through McDonald's book on the Lehman implosion.
As far as I am concerned, what I have been witnessing of late from the Fed, Treasury complex is simply v 3.0
I honestly think I could write the book now and just fill in the dates and small details later.
Does Maria B's gigantic ass carry a premium?
No, but her Hillary-Clinton-pant-suit-covered-PERMA-GUNT does take some of the shine off of the apple.
ROFLMAO! Now that's hyphenation!!
In my part of the world, we refer to a "gunt" as a "fupa"
In my neck of the woods, I've learned that while those terms are completely interchangeable, their use is usually generational. Personally, I grew up with the FUPA, but became enamored with the harsh sound of GUNT by my elders.
Given the context (mega hyphenating), I felt that GUNT would have more oomph behind it... but I appreciate your perspective completely.
The key to focus on here isn't the use of illiteration, but rather how yet another woman has completely let herself go, to the obvious disappointment of men the world over.
The "Money Honey" has become the "Lard 'Tard."
"Alliteration." TD started it with his title to this post.
I won't even try to compete with you guys.
I am Chumbawynonnajudd
"heated bidding war for the ample assets partially hidden by various grotesquely stretched sweaters" :-)
Michelle's, Caruso & Cabrera's has been noted by the posters today.
Her agent should be taking notes of her key demo outreach.
Ms Drury is still the bench mark, so expect a prime time move in the new year...
i would place an offer for Amanda Drury and Tits Cabrera; those are the only ASSets I'm interested in.
Nice call on Amanda Drury. Bid to open...
This brother had it right back then.
by dzaon Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:36
#62626
You guys are missing the big picture.
This is a recovery-less recovery. The lack of any future economic growth is already priced in to the fraudulent, profitless, consumer-less, Jobless, and moneyless, recovery.
The funniest part of today was simon hobbs (in for larry kudlow), who clearly did not get the botox, or the memo on how to play poker, cnbc style.
His facial expressions while being lectured by a smug midget (with freakish white eyeliner) on the 5% expansion currently being experienced in the US, made my day.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1292887512&play=1
Tyler, top 10 headline and you know how high that benchmark is......
The only time these dip ships talk about the alphabet is when discussing the so-called recovery. V this and W that.
Have you noticed the premise that is always slipped by the viewer in CNBC's Nazi style propaganda? It's always the type of recovery we are in, not if we are in a recovery at all and will we get worse.
I notice that all the time.
There is never a question of if.
You just noticed that now ? It's been happening since the bust of the dot.com bubble; there is never a question of IF; and some media structures have stopped using IF in the 80s.
No CB, like you have noticed for a very long time.
But it has become particularly salient (at least in my simple mind) in the last 8 months.
Or perhaps i am just more aware of what premises are being taken for granted. And what questions seem to be off limits.
language/logical structures like these are part of behavioral linguistics constructs which can effect a general state of consensus when it comes to stating some description of a state. Historically, they were used the most in the totalitarian regimes to enforce or re-enforce the position of a government or a certain individual. Nowadays you can find them almost everywhere. Logically, they are expressions of certainty and not possibility or contingency. It is a nice trick to use on the sheeple, but most of us can clearly see trough it. Mostly, constructs like these describe a temporal dynamical system which is either contingent or possible, but not certain, and therein lays the fallacy of such constructs; they are not true ( or are false ).
North Korea
USSR ( 1917 - 1953 ), Germany ( 1936 - march 1945 ), China ( during Mao ), Yugoslavia ( 1946-1980 ), most African nations, USA ( 1963 - present time ), etc etc.
CB, while most of us may be able to clearly see through it, the average sheeple can't clearly see and thus the reason they eventually fall for it.
Because the average person is (deliberately) ignorant as to how money and markets work on even a basic level, they take their cues from so called "more educated or enlightened sources" meaning our so called "free press."
If every mass media source they tune in to is talking the same game, while they hold doubts (setting up a cognitive dissonance) after months of this propaganda onslaught, they surrender (capitulate) and give into the wonderful feeling of pure natural brain dopamine being released as they no longer fight the cognitive dissonance and surrender to the squid.
The sheeple do not like to hold contrary views and ideas. To be one with the herd feels so much better. Serenity now.
Moooooooooo
tha fuck ? don't be an asshole; Cognitive D makes a superb point; the mentality of the Herd will eventually crash the world. Study the history of scientific ( or any other ) discoveries and you will see for yourself that the main component, besides knowledge and imagination, was a unique form of creative solitude. That what makes the world as we know it today, not the herd mentality.
Moooooooooooo. I'm pretending to be one of the ignorant cows in the herd Cheeky. I am not being critical.
I agree with everything both of you have said here. Even the part about me being an asshole.
Remember, my other moniker is Arrogant Bastard.
apologies then
You are not Chumbawamba; you are Chumbawannabe
Precisely, so where is Chumbawamba? I miss him/her/it.
He's probably buying tons of gold and is torturing cats; he/she/it will probably join us later ...
Hey, Cheeky, hold off. Torturing cats is my job -- and then I eat 'em.
This is what I meant about a premise that's slipped by. It has become intense and any discussion in opposition to it is swept away as silly and not worth the effort to even talk about it.
Like a dog chasing it's tail, everything is supporting everything else, like a giant echo chamber.
This happens in politics all the time. Someone will say something on a Sunday talk show, it will be repeated in a newspaper as fact, which refers back to the talk show. Then, another politician says the same thing, referring back to the newspaper to substantiate it as "fact."
This is how lies and propaganda get "laundered" squeaky clean like drug money.
"A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth can even get out of bed." Mark Twain.
Not sure what was more disturbing in that clip Lizzy, the white eyes (tanning booth mini-goggles?), the pink tie, his gurgling phlegm or his solution to lower unemployment was to shaft the minimum wage workers a little more.
I like stretched sweaters
TD-- we love the annoying alliteration affliction but let's move on from the CNBC obsession. They're a tired bunch of fools. Like the song goes, everybody knows...
I do not concur. Off with their talking heads.
when i saw simon hobbs today on CNBC i kept waiting for him to break into song and sing, "come to the caberet old friend..."
Let's review the two most highly prized assets:
Thanks robo, TD was gonna leave us hanging with his,"botoxed" and "grotesquely tight sweaters" (is there such a thing?) and no pictures.
oh yes; excellent; thank you Robo; and you may as well include this photo of Tits Cabrera in one of your posts http://project000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/07/michelle_carusocabrera_bikini.jpg
Here's a little inside information on how she keeps herself so lean and svelt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX1viP3TkVA
inside information ? don't tell me you work for the Beast ( i mean CNBS not tits Cabrera )
CLUTCH
The graphic sexual image of a woman holding that device in front of her chest and face why shaking it was too funny.
Just for a second I thought that boat name read Cheeky CB29, and I was wondering if you weren't telling us something. :)
Lothar; oh man; i wish
Do my eyes deceive me. Does the boat behind the beauty have "Cheeky Bastard" on it?
Go Cheeky.
I am not Chumbawamba
Don't forget about their other pair of assets from the land down under. Some big city exposure is needed.
http://reportercaps.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cnbc&action=display&th...
ah, yes, she is a nice lass; you got to give props to CNBC on their anchorette choices
-100 on the death-mask brunette. No lips = no love.
Comparing GECC's balance sheet to AIG takes away any valid points the rest of the post may have had.
I'd rather Liberty spend that money on my Braves.
Having been there when GE took over RCA ( and NBC) by paying off Tinker and RCA chief its interesting to see GE fire selling the considerable assets of NBC Universal. Selling off the valuable cable networks and the Universal library in pieces would prob. bring more money then getting into bed with Comcast who's going to finance part of it by adding $9 billion in debt. That creep Jack Welch must be really pissed by Inwalt's stupidity. May they all suffer a DREADFUL PASSING.
Ha, I thought that was Cheekers boat also. Until I noticed the Coor's. Cheeker wouldn't serve his beeches Coor's.
The best line I heard all night was from Bruno, a judge on Dancing With Stars, live,:"your dancing reminds me of the economy, each week you say it's getting better but it never does."
I don't know who crapped their pants first upon hearing this, Keith Overbite or Barry Obama.
L M A O
Maria Bartiromo is so fat that she is classified, as of October 2009, as a celestial body.
First MSM TV news story saying the planet has not warmed since 1998.
Uploaded by yours truly.
Lou Dobbs: Al Gore, “Not Evil Just Wrong” Global Warming Debate Part 1 10/12/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ujzfnC7cI
Lou Dobbs: Al Gore, “Not Evil Just Wrong” Global Warming Debate Part 2 10/12/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFAjssuJ2s
i only clicked on this thread hoping for some choice screencaps of stretched sweaters
glad to see i wasnt disappointed :0
I still can't believe you guys find that hooked nosed witch (as she was called circa 2003 on air) attractive.