{"id":130512,"date":"2016-04-28T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/when-media-behemoths-collide.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:49:09","slug":"when-media-behemoths-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/when-media-behemoths-collide.html","title":{"rendered":"When Media Behemoths Collide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal &#8212; having now acquired DreamWorks &#8212; is set to go toe-to-toe with Disney in movies, animation, TV networks, and theme parks.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has an edge in major IP franchises &#8212; but NBCUniversal has Comcast (or, more properly, Comcast has NBCUniversal).<\/p>\n<p>It should be interesting &#8212; in a big-money, duopolistic way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thedisneyblog.com\/2016\/04\/28\/nbcuniversal-acquires-dreamworks-animation-studios\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/gceyYnN8gITB6XbOBPejYzmfvBUPmjWHFPBESMzcrAt6njorPBYHWko9hg7XBHEB3RmUJkNkkRDBXF4DHXaN91KKmi6lblDdLoduQocLkOP4LSgOKn61mjXuOOpK0g=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thedisneyblog.com\/2016\/04\/28\/nbcuniversal-acquires-dreamworks-animation-studios\/'>NBCUniversal acquires DreamWorks Animation Studios | The Disney Blog<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNBCUniversal is the closest thing to a rival to The Walt Disney Company in the market today and with the just announced acquisition of DreamWorks animation, that rivalry just got a bit more heated. NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast, now effectively owns two animation studios, DreamWorks and Illumination Entertainment,&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HijXqSPXZA2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal &#8212; having now acquired DreamWorks &#8212; is set to go toe-to-toe with Disney in movies, animation, TV networks, and theme parks. Disney has an edge in major IP franchises &#8212; but NBCUniversal has Comcast (or, more properly, Comcast has NBCUniversal). It should be interesting &#8212; in a big-money, duopolistic way. NBCUniversal acquires DreamWorks Animation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/when-media-behemoths-collide.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Media Behemoths Collide!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131852,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/23\/government-judgment-by-fiat.html","url_meta":{"origin":130512,"position":0},"title":"Government Judgment by Fiat","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Oct-16 6:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump doesn't really understand much about the law, about due process, or about the legal system. 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