Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-10-13 Thread Wesley McGee
Let's call the whole thing off! http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20120204-93/hulu-owners-call-off-sale/ http://blog.hulu.com/2011/10/13/hulu-equity-owners-announce-decision-to-terminate-the-hulu-sale-process/ http://techme.me/CA1D -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received thi

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-10-10 Thread Wesley McGee
"Who Wants to Buy Hulu?" Not Yahoo! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yahoo-withdraws-hulu-bid-246093 That leaves Dish, Amazon, and to Hulu's continuing chagrin, Google. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-27 Thread Wesley McGee
Who wants to buy Hulu? Dish and Google. http://www.businessinsider.com/guess-who-made-the-highest-bid-for-hulu-2011-9 Google came with the largest bid at around $4 billion, but it also came with a list of demands. The largest no-strings-attached bid was Dish Network at $1.9 billion, which wound

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-17 Thread Wesley McGee
Update: The question may now be "Will Hulu ever be bought?" http://j.mp/pLKCBU At issue is Hulu wants more than the bidders are offering, Yahoo is in bad straits and could be bought themselves (I remember being chided by mocking the idea of Yahoo buying Hulu), and lack of agreement by the owners

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-07 Thread Wesley McGee
Will Google be the dark horse bidder for Hulu? http://allthingsd.com/20110906/google-goes-big-with-its-hulu-bid/ Peter Kafka of AllThingsD writes that Google may jump into the bidding for Hulu with a bid larger than the expected $1-2 million of Dish or Amazon or the suddenly CEO-less Yahoo, with

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-04 Thread Wesley McGee
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:11 AM, PGage wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > >> The three remaining bidders are The Dish Network (who owns Blockbuster), >> Yahoo and Amazon according to the Financial Times (link to Deadline -- >> http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/dish-plans-

Re: [TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-04 Thread PGage
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > The three remaining bidders are The Dish Network (who owns Blockbuster), > Yahoo and Amazon according to the Financial Times (link to Deadline -- > http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/dish-plans-blockbuster-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix/). >

[TV orNotTV] Who Wants to Buy Hulu?

2011-09-03 Thread Wesley McGee
The three remaining bidders are The Dish Network (who owns Blockbuster), Yahoo and Amazon according to the Financial Times (link to Deadline -- http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/dish-plans-blockbuster-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix/). The Deadline post is about how Dish wants to take on Netflix t