2 media items for pontification

posted by RICK : 6:28 PM

1) Disney is going to buy Pixar for 7.4 B-B-B-Billion Dollars. This is big news. BIG. I'm talking about the news here and describing it as BIG! Obviously this is a coup for Disney, but I don't give a rats ass about Disney, I'm concerned about the output of Pixar, and I'm seriously nervous about how this acquisition is going to affect the quality of the final product. This merger, over the years, could easily turn Pixar from the premiere animation studio that it currently is into just another Dreamworks that ends up cranking out sub-par product 4 times a year. This also means we're likely going to get some pretty horrible Nemo sequels DTV (I saw a phone booth ad for a sequel to Bambi on my way to work! A SEQUEL TO BAMBI!). I pray that the increasingly evil-minded Steve Jobs retains some sort of quality control.

2) UPN and The WB are merging into a super-network called "The CW". Aside from the horrifying name, this could actually be a pretty great station targeted at young people. As it is now, neither network really has enough programming to survive in the current market, but combine the two together and now we're dealing with a force to be reckoned with. The big question is how this affects markets that already have both networks, as one of them will have to turn into something else altogether.

Les Moonves is one crazy SOB.

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