You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Then let's smash it to bits with sledgehammers and move on to a new obsession!
I'm thinking we should buy a company together this time. Maybe AT&T?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Fine, we'll go smaller. Let's buy Wide Open West and make them not suck.
...Also, it looks like Time Warner Cable is buying Insight Communications. FUCK
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Wide Open West? Kinda.
I guess they're not that bad, but their broadband service isn't very reliable at times. I liked Insight's RoadRunner better.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
No, I liked Insight. Their service was very reliable and they had decent pricing.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
...so I banged this out:
ABC Inc – Est. 2010, from the sale of most of Disney's television properties to a new entity
In May 2010, Disney denied that ABC was in the process of being sold. This turned out to be far from the case, as a group of investors going by the name “Capital Cities Communications” (the name belonging to the company that owned ABC from 1986-1996) were in the final stages of buying most of Disney's television properties, ABC included.
By the deal's finalization in June, the company had taken with it the ABC television network, the company's 80% stake in ESPN, Inc. (the owner of the profitable ESPN properties), the company's 27% stake in the Hulu video site, the ten ABC owned-and-operated stations, the ABC Studios production company, Disney-ABC Domestic Television (which was soon renamed “ABC Studios Distribution”), ABC Family, the company's 42.5% stake in A&E Television Networks, and the five ESPN Radio owned-and-operated stations.
The company soon changed its name to “American Broadcasting Company, Inc.”, or “ABC Inc” for short. The company decided to get a few deals out of the way quickly, placing WJRT in Flint, Michigan and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio up for sale, and concurrently purchasing WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan from the E.W. Scripps Company (an act which reunited the station with the other four original ABC O&O stations) and KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado from the McGraw-Hill Companies. WJRT and WTVG found buyers in their previous owner SJL Broadcasting, who closed on the stations early in 2011.
In March of 2011, the company purchased Discovery Communications's 50% stake in fledgling children's cable network The Hub, which was intended to complement ABC Family and provide an outlet for ABC Inc's inherited library of children's and family programs (but mainly because the CEO is obsessed with My Little Pony!).
ABC Inc's primary businesses are production and distribution of television programs for broadcast and cable, and content for the Web and emergent platforms.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Nice. I take it this version of events is canon now?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
BUT...wouldn't you rather use that money to buy your girlfriend some candy and a new digital camera?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
[throwaway post that Haven will later quote and make a pun about]
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can jail people for cheating now? Neat!
*dons warden costume* Looks like someone's been a naughty boy...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I'm thinking we should buy a company together this time. Maybe AT&T?
...Also, it looks like Time Warner Cable is buying Insight Communications. FUCK
I guess they're not that bad, but their broadband service isn't very reliable at times. I liked Insight's RoadRunner better.
In May 2010, Disney denied that ABC was in the process of being sold. This turned out to be far from the case, as a group of investors going by the name “Capital Cities Communications” (the name belonging to the company that owned ABC from 1986-1996) were in the final stages of buying most of Disney's television properties, ABC included.
By the deal's finalization in June, the company had taken with it the ABC television network, the company's 80% stake in ESPN, Inc. (the owner of the profitable ESPN properties), the company's 27% stake in the Hulu video site, the ten ABC owned-and-operated stations, the ABC Studios production company, Disney-ABC Domestic Television (which was soon renamed “ABC Studios Distribution”), ABC Family, the company's 42.5% stake in A&E Television Networks, and the five ESPN Radio owned-and-operated stations.
The company soon changed its name to “American Broadcasting Company, Inc.”, or “ABC Inc” for short. The company decided to get a few deals out of the way quickly, placing WJRT in Flint, Michigan and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio up for sale, and concurrently purchasing WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan from the E.W. Scripps Company (an act which reunited the station with the other four original ABC O&O stations) and KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado from the McGraw-Hill Companies. WJRT and WTVG found buyers in their previous owner SJL Broadcasting, who closed on the stations early in 2011.
In March of 2011, the company purchased Discovery Communications's 50% stake in fledgling children's cable network The Hub, which was intended to complement ABC Family and provide an outlet for ABC Inc's inherited library of children's and family programs (but mainly because the CEO is obsessed with My Little Pony!).
ABC Inc's primary businesses are production and distribution of television programs for broadcast and cable, and content for the Web and emergent platforms.
...I forgot the sale of WEAE in Pittsburgh, which should take place around March of 2011 or so.
Lo.
Off.
$1.8 billion.
ABC Inc can go to $2 billion if Summit so desires.
^Yes.
It doesn't feel special to me, somehow.
...did it ever?
...ABCF rarely interests me, honestly, aside from it being no-doubt one of ABC Inc's load-bearers (alongside the ESPN Networks).
BANG
BANG
ON THE DOOR BABY
V. (1963)
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Vineland (1990)
Mason & Dixon (1997)
Against the Day (2006)
Inherent Vice (2009)
as well as a collection of short stories, Slow Learner (1984).
The world's oldest art
*dons warden costume* Looks like someone's been a naughty boy...
Sweet Apple Acres is sadly not real, anyway.
nope, not doing it.
"Beans? Or spaceboob?"
That would be awfully quote-idian of me, wouldn't it.
...I'm wondering how to make Summit fit in with ABC Inc.
^Or that. Buh.
GRAB MY HOOF