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From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers


Right back to where we began.

AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, General Electric, GM, News Corp, Tumblr, and the various incarnations of Time Warner have also gotten mixed up or split up while trying to bridge the gap between communications and media over the years. Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T’s acquisitions were an attempt to take over the media landscape built on their networks, with varying degrees of success, delivering brands like Oath, WarnerMedia, and Peacock, as well as the entirely forgettable Go90. Over the next few years, AT&T executives float bad ideas for Game of Thrones like shooting “snackable” vertical video versions.

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