Harold Vogel
Harold Vogel
decent wise
He did it the honorable, wise and decent way,
assets building impression key phase pieces point reached
My impression is that Mr. Murdoch has been in a phase of building assets for most of his career, 25 years or so, and he has reached the point where most of the key pieces are in place,
favor mean vote
Just because some of the shareholders get to vote doesn't mean they'll vote in favor of Hilton,
million seen
I don't think we've seen the end of it...$300 million may not be enough,
smoothed
He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.
act assets good high job quite spot
We have been very high on ITT for quite a long time. And we think the assets are very valuable. And for him to spot it and act on it is very important and suggests that he is doing a very, very good job for Hilton.
justify question
The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.
doubt guessing
In this case, I'd doubt it's that much. I'm guessing $10 million.
management meet messy reality resistance standpoint top
In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,
ball cable carried time
Cable carried the ball for everything during the quarter--That's the way they've been for a long time now.
demand falling finally last mean might sweep time video year
It has been the year for video on demand for the last 20 years. But this time it might actually be real. That doesn't mean that it's going to sweep the world, but things are finally falling into place.
certainly couple major next stage
It's certainly a very important moment. This is his first major transaction and it will set the stage for at least the next couple of years.
active adjustment fairly jobs known lengthy quite sit steve
It may be a fairly lengthy adjustment process. Steve Jobs is known to be quite active in everything he does - he won't sit back quietly.
appreciation clear consider generate giant imagination leap selling sold stock time
It wouldn't be a giant leap of imagination for them to consider selling all of it. Even if they sold all of it, it's not clear that will generate significant stock appreciation for Time Warner.