So are you excited and want Disney to buy fox or not?
I got a little confused there because you say you are excited and really hope it goes thru but also say that it will have huge ramifications if it goes through.
Unless I got my word meanings wrong but doesn’t ramifications mean that it is a complex and Unwelcome event.
Seeing that you have been following the news about this what would you consider to be the ramifications of a purchase other than jobs that overlap being removed in upper management
For Parks and Resorts the immediate ramifications are minimal. The merger adds the Simpson's so Universals will have to send Disney more money to two different subsidiaries. It also will allow Disney to create a Parks and Resorts subsidiary to manage the 2 Fox theme parks which are royalty based just like Six Flags foreign parks. This is an area I have a great deal of interest in because of all the possibilities Fox theme parks presents.
As for the movie studios, the market size Disney will have approximately 40 of North America, the Asian share will increase quite a bit. Just an extra 2 percent of the gross will yield about 50 million in profits not counting needing less workers and office space as they will only need one distribution company.
Broadcast will gain in Europe as they can add more of their stations on Sky and even combine their studios products to an internet based service.
Domestically their streaming service and Hulu will gain with more programming. Plus as long as their Marvel shows which are under contract to Netflix continue to draw a large audience Netflix will have to pay for those shows.
Sports wise, 22 regional networks with local team coverage are easy money makers. No cable or satilighr company in the N.Y. market can drop the Yes network and the BIG 10 networks is a requirement in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania and other Big 10 states. Fans of those 3 big 10 teams will pay anything to watch their team.
There are so many good things that will come out of this merger regardless of the negativity of some posters. Over all through efficiencies in operations profits should be increased by several billion dollars a year and some of that money will make it into Parks and Resorts.