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18.11.2022 - 02:11 / deadline.com
Liberty Media chairman John Malone slammed AT&T, praised Reed Hastings and affirmed his faith in the Warner Bros. Discovery team led by David Zaslav amid the drama and red ink of today’s streaming wars.
“At the moment, there is a lot of blood flowing down the gutters of people who are streaming. Some of them can afford it, and some of them can’t. So my guess is the ones who can’t will ultimately have to look for some kind of consolidation or exit,” said Malone during a Q&A at the end of Liberty Media’s annual investor day in NYC. It’s one of the rare, regular public appearances for the savvy longtime media investor, a major shareholder of Discovery and now of WBD.
One question: What makes him confident the merger will be a success and not “an LBO [leveraged buyout] gone bad?” The company missed expectations last quarter on slow advertising and high mergers costs.
“One thing that gives me confidence is the management. I have enough confidence in [WBD CEO] David Zaslav and his guys, having seen the integration of Scripps with Discovery a couple of years ago,” Malone said.
Second, the balance sheet, which is “very light on near-term maturities” despite a hefty debt load.
Third, “even in its absolutely worst year, it is generating a 10% cash return on its equity value. So, to stay in as an investor and look to the future, where the cash return is almost certain to dramatically increase, is a pretty good upward pointed vector,” said the billionaire with degrees in electrical engineering and economics. The company is generating “meaningful” free cash flow and targeting $3.5 billion in synergies.
WBD in any case can’t be sold for at least two years because the deal was a tax free spinoff, Malone noted. “So I am not wasting
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