Cashing In Their Chips

摘要

Networks, shmetworks. Fobget all that babble about the sales of ABC and CBS being linked to potential "synergies* like Peter Jennings wearing Mickey Mouse ears on the nightly news or Mouse Central in Burbank creating a TV Minnie series. The real driving force behind last week's big TV deals is much simpler: three shrewd old guys who wanted to cash in huge chips. So let's look at why the sellers are getting out, if for no other reason than to see whether it's time for the rest of us to get in.