James Goss
James Goss
advertising both causing challenges content higher media players prices side stagnation stock ultimately
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.
companies cross involved issue might ownership types
The restriction with a lot of the other companies (like AOL-Time Warner) might have involved cross ownership restrictions between a lot of the other types of media, but I don't think that's an issue here.
business capitalize costs finally front invested point
This is a business where the infrastructure costs are invested up front and now Sirius and XM are at the point where they are finally able to capitalize on those costs.
both combined fringe network obviously somewhat stronger
They've both been somewhat fringe players, so obviously they'd be a stronger network when combined together.
provides publishing talked
They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.
choice couple delay options survivor weeks
They don't have much choice to reschedule the NCAA, ... The options would be to delay Survivor for a couple weeks or do what they're doing.
attempt catch choice early hbo lead second took
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.
company extreme
The company is already doing some of the things he wants, just not to the extreme he's recommending,
running doctors said
Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
crisis toasts
I always like toast in a crisis.
dvds hbo growth
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.