Man, that AT&T CEO "resignation" (hah) is YUGE

Here’s everything AT&T now owns, apart from your soul

Be advised this article is from 2018, am not familiar with AT&T business acquisitions since then

https://bgr.com/2018/06/16/att-time-warner-merger-brands-what-they-own/

By Chris Mills @chrisfmills

June 16th, 2018 at 4:19 PM

Earlier this week, a judge decided the fate of the AT&T Time Warner deal, and the result was a big thumbs-up in the general direction of capitalism. The $85 billion deal has closed, Time Warner has officially been assimilated into AT&T (and renamed WarnerMedia), and there’s almost zero chance that anything will stop it now.

With the closing of the deal, AT&T is now far more than just a telecoms company. It owns dozens of brands, as well as the rights to some of the most popular shows on TV. It has dozens of cable channels, and if the worst fears about programming disputes play out, AT&T could black those channels out from your pay TV provider during a dispute. In no particular order, here’s some of the big brands AT&T now owns.

HBO

Arguably the biggest single name AT&T just acquired. Owns the rights to shows like Westworld, Game of Thrones, Veep, Last Week Tonight, and Silicon Valley. Also has first-run distribution rights (the first people to air a movie after it leaves theaters) with companies like Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Dreamworks. It also owns the Cinemax cable channel, which runs feature-length films from some of those distributors.

TBS

Cable channel owned by Turner, and it turn (heh) by AT&T. Airs popular shows like Conan, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Friends, Family Guy, New Girl, and 2 Broke Girls.

CNN

Another subsidiary of Turner, CNN…well, you all know what CNN is and what it does. Outside of HBO, it’s probably the most recognizable brand that AT&T acquired in this, and certainly its biggest cable channel. Between CNN, TBS, and HBO, AT&T has more than enough content to offer cheap streaming bundles to the masses.

Turner

Turner Broadcasting System, as it’s fully known, owns a bunch of cable channels and some websites that flesh out the rest of AT&T’s cable content. Channels include CNN, Boomerang, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, and Cartoon Network. Through Turner Sports, it also owns websites like Bleacher Report, NBA.com, PGA.com, NCAA.com, and NBA TV.

DC Entertainment

DC Entertainment is a subdivision of Warner Bros. that deserves its own mention just for the sheer amount of stuff it has under its umbrella. DC Comics, the comic book producer, is under the umbrella, as is DC Films, which makes movies based on those comic characters. Some of the characters it has the rights to include Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman. Batman is part of the same universe, as a character of Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros is one of the “big six” movie studios, and owns some of the most successful movie franchises in history. The Dark Knight Batman trilogy, Harry Potter, Matrix trilogy, Inception, Suicide Squad, and The Hangover all came out of Warner Bros.

New Line Cinema

Warner Bros also owns New Line Cinema, a studio best known for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogy. It also has smaller hits like Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers, and Sex and the City to its name.

The rest of AT&T

That’s just the major brands that AT&T acquired — it also has its own collection of household names that it’s owned forever. AT&T Wireless is the cell carrier everyone loves to hate, U-verse is its cable TV offering, DirecTV is a satellite broadcaster it also owns, as well as dozens of regional cable and phone companies — almost anything with the name “Bell” in it. Bizarrely, the list also includes the Yellow Pages and yellowpages.com.

If you want a more complete list of all the subisidiaries the company now owns, Big Think has put a list together that’s more complete.

Per the Big Think list (holy shit, even more yuge)

https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/here-are-all-the-companies-att-time-warner-will-own-after-the-merger-2

>>8908894

Am ending the isolation right this second

Georgia here

After 6 weeks, my longtime housekeeper (she's LEGAL) is cleaning my house & will be paid more than usual, too.

I do without other expenses to have pro housecleaning, started it after a back injury

>>8908936

>>8908936

>"New England Patriots owner RobertKraftcharged with soliciting sex at Florida spa"

>https://www.foxnews.com/sports/new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-charged-with-soliciting-sex-at-florida-spa

>These kind of krafty pasttimes?

KEK

CNNanon was telling us that somebody's got some dirt on that AT&T CEO

Anybody cross-reference search his name with the Lolita Express flight manifests yet?

Or have some good guys in military intel/NSA compiled a collection of his pervy communications?

$20 says Randall Lynn Stephenson is a perv

HE WAS CEO OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FROM 2016-2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_L._Stephenson

In April 2015, Stephenson was named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed by Knoyme King, an assistant at AT&T. According to King, Stephenson was complicit in covering up racist texts sent by then-President Aaron Slator.[4] King's suit against AT&T removed Stephenson as a co-defendant after an attempt to obtain his deposition in April 2016 failed.[5] The case against the remaining defendants was settled out of court in September 2016.[6]

During his tenure as CEO of AT&T, Stephenson was frequently quoted as having stated, "Screw the customers, I'm taking care of the shareholders." Whenever reminded that, without any customers, there would be no shareholders, as the corporation would obviously be forced into bankruptcy, Stephenson would reply, "I don't know, let me chew on that."[7][dead link]

In September 2016, Stephenson gave a speech regarding race relations at AT&T’s annual Employee Resource Group conference in Dallas. An employee posted a video of the speech to YouTube, in which Stephenson asked attendees to make a greater effort to understand each other and communicate better.[8]

During his tenure as CEO, AT&T acquired DirecTV for $49 billion in July 2015 and Time Warner for $85 billion in June 2018. According to Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal, Stephenson has "transformed the phone company he inherited into one of the world's biggest entertainment companies."[9]

Scouting

He was the 36th National President of the Boy Scouts of America, serving from 2016[10] until 2018.[11] Stephenson, as well as fellow board member Jim Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young, publicly opposed the BSA's practice of banning openly gay Scouts and stated their intention "to work from within the BSA Board to actively encourage dialogue and sustainable progress."[12]

Stephenson maintains homes in Preston Hollow, Dallas and Olmos Park, San Antonio, Texas. Stephenson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[13]

Time to dig on Randall Lynn Stephenson

Holy shit, Stephenson's "mentor" was Carlos Slim?!?!? Slim attended Stephenson's daughter's wedding?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-24/at-t-dealmaker-is-a-carlos-slim-protege-with-a-list-in-the-cloud

"To understand what drove Randall Stephenson to do the deal of his life, combining AT&T Inc. with Time Warner Inc., you have to go back two decades to a threadbare office in Mexico City.

That’s where Stephenson, a rising star at the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., was installed to oversee the company’s holdings south of the border. He would work alongside Carlos Slim, a cigar-smoking King Midas who had taken investments in real estate, cigarettes and bottling factories and turned them into a fortune big enough to acquire the state-run phone monopoly.

The two became fast friends, and Oklahoma-born Stephenson picked up a habit of Slim’s – obsessing over a detailed list of potential acquisition targets, routinely updated with the latest market valuations. Over the years, as Stephenson rose up the chain and his company morphed to become AT&T, he kept his mentor’s method in mind.

These days, Stephenson’s list looks a little different than Slim’s old notebook. It resides on AT&T’s cloud, where only the chief executive officer can access the color-coded sheet of 40 to 45 companies, constantly updated with stock and bond prices. He calls it his scan.

“I live my scan,” Stephenson, 56, said in an interview on Sunday. “The list grows; it’s a living breathing document. Some companies come on and some go off. Time Warner now comes off.”

Stephenson was just looking for opportunities outside his family’s cattle-feed business when he joined Southwestern Bell in 1982 on the recommendation of his brother Kevin, who is still an AT&T lineman in Oklahoma. It’s been a wild ride. From the time Randall became chief financial officer in 2001, on through his appointment as CEO in 2007, and up to last year, he had already done more than $200 billion in deals, plus a $39 billion one that got killed by regulators.

(moar in link)

Well, well, look what we have here– seems "resigned" AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson had a little cocaine problem once upon a time! That's not the only skeleton in our boy's closet, either.

https://wagcenter.com/corporate-wags/lenise-stephenson-5-facts-att-ceo-randall-stephensons-wife/

"In 2009 her husband was falsely reported dead after falling into a coma following a massive cocaine binge. Then in 2015, her husband was named in a lawsuit filed by an assistant at AT&T named Knyome King. King claimed that Randall helped to cover up racist texts that were sent by the then President, Aaron Slator. Eventually, the case was settled out of court."

Need a lawfag to look up that lawsuit

>>8909170

Nah, if you want to insult me, don't just IMPLY I'm stupid, which I am not, just come right out and say it.

It is likely that one of the intelligences services has digital proof of Stephenson's illegal activities.

Maybe digging would be a better use of your time, unless you want to continue nitpicking semantics.

He settled a case filed by a former AT&T employee. Need more details on that, but if CNNanon was correct, it was a sexual harassment suit.

>>8909388

I went for years without a cellphone

If "they" want me to leave it at home, snooping on me is a good way to accomplish that