Mike Van Esler
mikevanesler.bsky.social
Mike Van Esler
@mikevanesler.bsky.social
associate prof. of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. bad movies, streaming media, anime, and jrpgs
i don't just mean this from an artistic/ethical perspective. dumping $1B into a company right as the bubble is about to pop is an insane thing to do for a media company that isn't growing
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Do you mean the MGM library titles that WBD owns? Amazon bought the existing studio from private equity a couple years ago
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is also not only an America thing. European regulators have to approve this deal too, so there is no way of telling what's going to happen
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And by that I mean, Congressional Republicans were already making noises about Netflix buying WBD, not out of any sense of market fairness, but because Dear Leader clearly wanted Larry Ellison and his estate to purchase it
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
completing his conservative new yorker arc: moving to florida (and running for office there)
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
dick fitts
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM