The big media players will ultimately have higher stock prices but it's getting out from all these challenges both on the advertising side and the content side that is causing some stagnation in the shares.
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Big media companies do generally provide a balance and some diversification that provides greater stability. But they are complex companies and maybe that complexity sort of offsets some of their strong values.James Goss
Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.
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HBO took an early lead and Showtime has had to catch up. You can attempt to be the first choice but, with Showtime, they may want to attempt to be the most interesting second option.
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Usually you have some perspective on things. But what seemed acceptable at the time, what seemed like the norm, now you're judging people by standards that didn't exist at the time. I think it's worth twice what it's trading for, but you won't get credit for it until some of these clouds are lifted.
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I think sometimes it's difficult to run something by committee the management of both companies are strong-willed types of individuals. They both have their own way of doing things. That makes it hard to have the flow you need and to create the sixth network.
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One of the qualities of independents (channels) is that it allows you to be more creative and more nimble than you can often be within big media companies,
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