Go Big or Go Home! The AT&T-Time Warner Vertical Merger

Authors

  • Serguei Komissarov Instituto de Estudios Comunicacionales en Medios, Cultura y Poder Aníbal Ford. Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Argentina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7785-8369
  • Emiliano Sánchez Narvarte Instituto de Estudios Comunicacionales en Medios, Cultura y Poder Aníbal Ford. Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Argentina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5407-3681

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33732/ixc/09/03Gobigo

Keywords:

Vertical Integration, Digital Convergence, TV Industry,

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the vertical merger between the telecommunications company AT&T and the media conglomerate Time Warner as a result of the changes in the American TV industry, caused by digital convergence. From a theoretical-methodological perspective of political economy of communication, we examine the anti-competitive effects of the merger on the market and its possible consequences. This analytical input allows us to consider the new conditions in which video content is produced, distributed and consumed as a result of digitization.

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2020-01-21

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Komissarov, S., & Sánchez Narvarte, E. (2020). Go Big or Go Home! The AT&T-Time Warner Vertical Merger. index.Comunicación, 9(3), 35–58. https://doi.org/10.33732/ixc/09/03Gobigo

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2019): Intersecciones televisivas

Section

Articles for monograph on Television Intersections

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