Ignore The Clickbait-Disney Won't Sell ABC

[Phroobar]

I wonder if in the near future we start to loose national television networks.
Would the government step in to save network television? They would probably let FOX die.

Broadcast Networks 2022: The Year Everyone Started To Wave The White Flag

Old schoolers like the late Gil Schwartz of CBS used to hate it when the press would commandeer executive sessions at TCA in the aughts with questions about the death of broadcast TV. HBO had come …

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Will Bob Iger Sell Disney’s Linear TV Networks? Insiders, Analysts Debate

Here’s an example of just how chaotic things are in Hollywood these days: Disney CEO Bob Iger’s recent remarks that the company’s linear TV assets “may not be core” to…

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As you can see, even a lot of people don't think ABC is actually going to go. Some people even think he doesn't even mean what he said about linear TV, and he just said that to please Wall Street. (That might mean what he said about the quality of Pixar films is also said only for Wall Street's benefit and not his actual beliefs.)

I think it's more in between, that he plans to sell assets, but ABC, ESPN and Disney Channel are not among them. Furthermore, Disney will never be acquired by another company, not even Apple. I know Iger said a lot of things about Steve Jobs buying Disney if he were alive, but A) Iger had connections with Jobs, not Tim Cook, and odds are their relationship isn't the same at all, B) Jobs likely wouldn't have done it either, and would've thought it distracted from Apple's core business, and C) Apple buying a studio is a harder sell than Amazon buying MGM. Amazon's main business isn't involved in creating and selling technical product, of being so ingrained with tech, the way Apple is.