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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 21m

I hate what Hallmark did to their archive I do gotta love some Perils of Penelope Pitstop though

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, CN wouldn't exist without the studio, the bones of Hanna-Barbera

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also don't think people realize that Warner Bros. Discovery was NEVER meant to be a "forever home" for the WarnerMedia assets It's telling that all the focus is on the WarnerMedia assets, and John Malone and David Zaslav knew that without them, Discovery would be a junk heap nobody wanted to buy

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If the "Warner Bros. curse" is real, it works the opposite way from how people think it does It's not the studio cursing the buyers, it's the buyers cursing the studio with lousy management

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't they WANT to kill the disruptive market?

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it's also just more socially acceptable to be - for lack of a better word - a "kidult" than it was, say, 20 years earlier

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Isn't it something how Time Inc./Time-Life has gone from "towering corporate behemoth" to "essentially nonexistent"

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You would think that a state like CO would have better infrastructure, being a cradle of the cable industry and all

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wasn't entirely sure if Cartoon Network was getting the MGM treatment or not, where the library is separated from the brand name and actual operating organization

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was grouping the channels and the IP together Since they're both multimedia machines in which the channels themselves are just cogs The same was true of MTV and Discovery in their heyday, and the same is true of CNN and ESPN now (and, kinda-sorta, Bravo)

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Basic cable buttered their bread, and indeed allowed them to even afford the bread, for decades The cable business has slowly dug its own grave for years, and they have done very little to actually try to save it

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just want to say, that I think it's really fucking sad how the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet went from beloved edutainment brands to garbage nobody wants to touch in the span of like 20 years

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would add Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to that list, although they are increasingly nostalgia brands like Hanna-Barbera

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They might have to sell some channels, although they might cling to any IP associated with them for dear life And who's to say such channels don't end up like the Fox RSNs, easy pickings for providers who want to drop them now that they lack the leverage of their old conglomerate owner?

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Basic cable channels have traditionally had fat profit margins, and ones like the Food Network and truTV (which, in particular, seemed to be devised as Turner Broadcasting's release valve for reality garbage) had lower budgets even in the go-go days Cord-cutting is, of course, going to test this

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When the government bailed out General Motors they ended up with a big stake in it

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's just fucking insane that THIS is what has become of Viacom and Time Warner, which were, when I was growing up, two of the biggest, baddest media companies on the planet Even Discovery Communications used to have dignity, and the less said about Scripps, the better...

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The story of Seagram and MCA/Universal was such a kaleidoscope of insane bullshit

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no Warner Bros. curse, these people are just stupid You ever hear people talk about a Universal curse?

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, you could say the same about MCA/Universal or MGM

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AT&T didn't know what the fuck they were doing in the first place

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But hey at least Shari Redstone got to cash out before her inheritance turned to ash because she and her father before her hadn't finished running ViacomCBSParamount into the ground! This entire saga is so infuriating

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ten years ago, all of Viacom, CBS, Skydance, Time Warner, Discovery Communications, and Scripps Networks Interactive were separate companies They shouldn't ever have been allowed to become one

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I desperately need to know the story behind this

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kevin DiCicco, the guy who was Air Bud's trainer, died earlier this year after years of homelessness and illness He got fucked over so badly

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Given that she implemented the TRO two days ahead of the deadline she imposed on her decision, I think there's a non-zero chance she rejects the settlement It shows me that she thought the AGs had a strong case

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The WGA didn't want to settle, until they did The calls for a settlement were coming from the DGA, IATSE, and Cinema United And "super-agent" Ari Emanuel wanted one too

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gotta love Lucian Bernhard!

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, it wasn't even 30 years ago that they basically stitched Warner Bros. Television Animation and Hanna-Barbera together This is that all over again And it was ugly the first time!

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like people don't truly understand just how massive this deal is How many times have people seen a logo for Paramount? Warner Bros.? New Line Cinema? Viacom? Republic Pictures? Spelling? Worldvision? King World? Lorimar? Telepictures? Turner? Hanna-Barbera? All would be one company

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline are all owned by the same guy...

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(Viacom and CBS were technically separate but both controlled by Sumner Redstone's National Amusements)

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ten years ago, all of Viacom, CBS, Skydance, Time Warner, Discovery Communications, and Scripps Networks Interactive were separate companies They shouldn't ever have been allowed to become one

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really don't understand the practical difference considering that what was once Viacom was already technically based out of New York, and the Melrose lot only became the corporate HQ for that whole thing once Skydance took over

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Ellisons' attempt to build a media empire feels like a nightmare come true David is going to wish that Dean Devlin had never made Flyboys

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why put it on a university campus if they don't want anything to do with the university or its students? Sounds like a big missed opportunity on the Cable Center's part

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hadn't heard of it until earlier this year, I was so disappointed because this sort of thing is my jam

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They want to move to Nashville within "two to three years," and in less than nine months, WBD can walk away from the deal and make Paramount Skydance cough up the breakup fee www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Paramount is looking for Nashville office space as it weighs leaving LA

The search comes amid the legal fight over the company’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surprised that humanist sans serifs don't seem to have made a comeback yet, at least in America

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UFO Sighting Bot @ufoskies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ever changing Object sighted, Aurora, Colorado, 1974

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fact that they found a new situation to pair Porky and Daffy in after decades of pairings is truly impressive

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Its supposed emotional core, with LeBron James' fictional son Dom wanting to "do me" (Dom, do me, get it?) was completely drowned out by a bunch of other stuff At least we got to see a bunch of obscure Hanna-Barbera characters and such rendered in 3D

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Space Jam 2 was a big incoherent mess The best thing about it was Don Cheadle hamming it up as a villain colored purple like HBO Max

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Cure Sky @utilis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Supposedly Tex didn't understand why people thought it was so funny, it was just a normal thing to him

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