Or Network Ten before it was delisted in 2017 prior to the CBS takeover?
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When comparing, you should be looking at market capitalisation, not share price on its own. (Share price x shares on issue)
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At the same situation and administrations were called for Ten prior to its acquisition by CBS in June 2017.
Wonder if Comcast buys SWM and The West Australian becomes independently owned again? Tough times for SWM.
Seven Studios and shares in Airtasker and lender SocietyOne could be sold, the SMH is reporting. Here:
So I think it could mean other assets including Red Live and stakes in HealthEngine, Huddle Insurance and Starts at 60 may be sold if Seven needs the cash?
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If Seven Studios is sold then Seven wonât have any in-house production apart from news, Sunrise, The Morning Show, The Daily Edition, and sport.
SWMâs shares closed at 20.5c today.
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I disagree about the situation - Ten were reliant on major shareholder backed funding guarantees (that were ultimately withdrawn).
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Not uncommon, 10 and 9 donât produce a lot of content outside of News & Current Affairs either.
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Iâd go further itâs an abomination for the network that will destroy it all because they bowed down to News Corp by not doing the ODIâs âŚ
One word: IDIOTS.
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Selling Seven Studios will mean production of Home and Away will be outsourced for the very first time. Will this affect the production quality?
I think SWM should keep Seven Studios and make it semi autonomous arm of the group, similar to ITV Studios in UK or ABC Studios, CBS Studios and Universal Television in America. It means it can produce shows for other networks and streaming services.
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Not necessarily, I donât see why any reason Seven couldnât bring that in-house under a different arm as a part of the condition of sale. Though, based on recent events re possibly network censorship of that very program it may not be such a bad idea for production to move to a 3rd party.
And theyâre already doing that - the Packed to the Rafters reboot was sold to Amazon Prime Video.
I believe they are already doing that.
Itâs probably doing greater harm to Cricket Australia then Seven at the moment - however it is irrelevant to it being onerous though
for those playing at home, I quote from the good book AASB137:
Seven say this relates to the Cricket (as I pointed out above), the Olympics and some legacy US content deals because; Ad revenues are down, the cost to broadcast is increasing, US ratings are down
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Seven Studios already do that.
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you do realise they are paying for it and as such hoarding it which is in breach of the Anti-Siphoning laws, oh wait this government will never go after News Corp which are their master, weak bastards.
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Seven didnt acquire the ODI rights - which allowed Foxtel to do so by exploiting a loophole in the rules around the anti-siphoning list (Labor had planned to close it, the Libs were like 
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This has interesting consequences for how the list works - if a chosen FTA partner doesnât wish to take up the rights to a listed event, the sport doesnât necessarily have to find another FTA partner who does, the test has been met. The list doesnt guarantee that the sport will be shown on FTA - it gives the industry the first right of refusal
The lack of action from anyone other then fans toward this move suggests that others were potential across it and it was only a matter of time before it occurred.
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While under the ownership of SWM, yes.
I think you will find they did get the FTA rights for the ODIâs and that Seven have stated that they are not going to broadcast those matches.
That is hoarding which is against the rules however this current government will do nothing about it.
[Citation Needed]
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Yes but you said:
Which sounds like youâre saying that they will be able to produce them in the future but they do that already. It hasnât been a restriction under SWM.
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Really? It was mentioned at the time of the broadcast deal that Seven does have the FTA rights but wonât be broadcasting said games.
Google is your friend.
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