News FOX selling out to Disney?

[Samurai8472]

Well that was fast

Bob Iger takes back the reigns of CEO from Bob Chapek

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/media/disney-ceo-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

And now, Mr. Iger has effectively returned to running the company. After a few weeks of letting Mr. Chapek take charge, Mr. Iger smoothly reasserted control, BlueJeans video call by BlueJeans video call. (Disney does not use Zoom for its meetings for security reasons.)

The new, nominal chief executive is referred to, almost kindergarten style, as “Bob C,” while Mr. Iger is still just “Bob.” And his title is “executive chairman” emphasis on the first word.

Mr. Iger is now intensely focused on remaking a company that will emerge, he believes, deeply changed by the crisis. The sketch he has drawn for associates offers a glimpse at the post-pandemic future: It’s a Disney with fewer employees, leading the new and uncertain business of how to gather people safely for entertainment.

 

[JD]

So it sounds like Chapek must have gotten in over his head with everything going on now.

 

[Samurai8472]

Chapek does get to be on the board of directors though

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-elected-board-directors-1290427?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR Breaking News_now_2020-04-15 14:36:20_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews


I guess they were branching for the storm. Over 100,000 workers have been furlonged. Nobody is going to their parks and cruise lines so it makes sense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52349729

 

[Turtletrekker]

And headline of the day goes to The Verge as Disney renames Fox's television division....

"Disney has no Fox left to give..."

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...century-fox-television-tv-studio-name-rebrand

 

[The Nth Doctor]

...20th Television sounds weird. Why not 20th Century Television?

 

[Christopher]

...20th Television sounds weird. Why not 20th Century Television?

Because it's been the 21st century for two decades now?

 

[Noname Given]

...20th Television sounds weird. Why not 20th Century Television?

Because we're 20 years past the 20th century - and they just want this name to last decades without sounding 'old'.

 

[Kor]

I haven't been following this discussion in a while...
My question is, with one media conglomerate eating up the others, at what point does the FTC (or whatever government agency) step in and tell them that they are getting too big? I understand that has happened before.

Kor

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Because we're 20 years past the 20th century - and they just want this name to last decades without sounding 'old'.

Is sounding old worse than sounding weird/non-sensical?

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, maybe "Century Television" would've worked better.

 

[fireproof78]

I haven't been following this discussion in a while...
My question is, with one media conglomerate eating up the others, at what point does the FTC (or whatever government agency) step in and tell them that they are getting too big? I understand that has happened before.

Kor

Usually when there is a lack of choice inside the market. They basically look at percentages and determine what companies appear to be controlling the market and driving content.

Is sounding old worse than sounding weird/non-sensical?

Yes.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Because it's been the 21st century for two decades now?

Because we're 20 years past the 20th century - and they just want this name to last decades without sounding 'old'.

Yeah, sure, but then why not 21st Century Television?

Either way, 20th Television is just weird.

 

[tomswift2002]

Yeah, maybe "Century Television" would've worked better.

When you look back at the history of the company, prior to it’s merger’s in the 1930’s, the original companies were Fox Film and 20th Century Pictures, Inc.

 

[Christopher]

When you look back at the history of the company, prior to it’s merger’s in the 1930’s, the original companies were Fox Film and 20th Century Pictures, Inc.

Yes, I know. Indeed, for its first 50 years, it was actually 20th Century-Fox. It didn't drop the hyphen until Rupert Murdoch acquired it in 1985.

On second thought, I bet the reason they went with "20th Television" rather than "Century Television" is that the latter is too generic. Brand names that are more distinctive and trademarkable are generally preferred, which is why The Sci-Fi Channel changed its name to Syfy, a unique spelling they could trademark.

 

[Noname Given]

TRUE GRIT might be the most potty-mouthed G-rater ever. Not just for its ''fill your hands'' moment, but Tom Cheney lets loose the big GD just before he kills Mattie's dad.

The captioning for the first POSEIDON ADVENTURE also confirms Ernest Borgnine lets loose the big F while helping lift the Christmas tree.

Wholesome family entertainment.

IDK - The original "Planet of the Apes" still had a G rating with Charlton Heston's: "Damn you...God damn you all to Hell..." at the end <--- And "God Damn" was really pushing WRT a possible higher film rating, even in the late 1960ies.

 

[JD]

Does Disney own FX now, or is that still part of Fox?

IDK - The original "Planet of the Apes" still had a G rating with Charlton Heston's: "Damn you...God damn you all to Hell..." at the end <--- And "God Damn" was really pushing WRT a possible higher film rating, even in the late 1960ies.

Didn't they also show the astronauts bare asses after they landed?

 

[EnderAKH]

Does Disney own FX now, or is that still part of Fox?

Didn't they also show the astronauts bare asses after they landed?

Disney now owns FX and FXX. If I recall they did not get Fox network, the Fox News channels, or the Fox Sports channels.

 

[JD]

I wonder if there might a name change in FX's future to? It is pretty close to Fox.

 

[Christopher]

I wonder if there might a name change in FX's future to? It is pretty close to Fox.

It's also a common abbreviation for "effects," which I've always assumed was part of the reason it was chosen. So it has an association unconnected to Fox and thus could be kept.

 

[JD]

Oh, I didn't even look at it that way, guess that could work.