Paul Miesing's "AOL TimeWarner" Case Analysis

AOL TimeWarner Fools Rush In Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner "Merger of Titans, Clash of Cultures" Business Week (7/14/2003) There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere "An AOL Believer Tells All" Business Week (11/17/03) AOL Time Warner spreadsheet
- AOL: AOLTV | MapQuest | Moviefone | Netscape | Weblogs.com | Winamp | Xdrive Secure Online Storage
- Time Warner: Adelphia | Cartoon Network / CNN | New Line Cinema ["The Lord of the Rings"] / Warner Bros. ["Harry Potter"] | Road Runner | Time / Warner Books | WB Shop
Top Competitors:
- Disney ~ A&E Television Network / ABC / E! / Enhanced TV / ESPN / History Channel / Lifetime / SoapNet | Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Miramax Films / Touchstone Pictures | Disney Auctions / Disney Shopping / Wall of Sound | Disney On Broadway / Disney On Ice | Disney Vacations / Disney International Resorts / Port Discovery | go.com / Movies.com / NASCAR Online / NBA.com / NFL.com / Soccernet / WNBA.com
- NBC Universal ~ BravoTV / CNBC / MSNBC / NBC / SciFi / USA Network | Universal
- Viacom ~ BET / CBS / Comedy Central / The Movie Channel / MTV / Nickelodeon / Showtime / SpikeTV / Sundance Channel / VH1 | Sportsline | Paramount | Simon & Schuster
- Vivendi/Universal ~ Decca Records / Geffen Records / Motown / Universal Records | Sierra
- Comcast ~ The Golf Channel / QVC
- ... and the rest ... AT&T Google News Corp. ~ Fox | LA Dodgers Six Flags Theme Parks Vonage Yahoo!
Industry: Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television ISP-Planet "Media Deals to Remember from 2001" Business Week (12/28/2001) "Mega Media Mergers: How Dangerous?" Business Week (2/23/04)
"America Online Gets Clicking" Business Week (7/12/2004) AOL/Time Warner Merger Online NewsHour "AOL-Time Warner: A Conquest, Not a Marriage" Business Week (6/29/00) "AOL Time Warner: Newsstand or Publisher?" Business Week (2/21/2001) "AOL Time Warner Reports $100 Billion Loss" CFO.com (1/30/03) "AOL Time Warner’s Tragic Marriage" Forbes (1/12/01) "AOL Time Warner’s Unfinished Revolution" Business Week (2/1/2002) "Case accepts blame for AOL-Time Warner debacle" CNET (1/12/2005) "Dick Parsons on the 'Urge to Merge'" Business Week (12/22/03) FTC Approves AOL/Time Warner Merger with Conditions (12/14, 2000) "The Future Is Now: Who needs AOL? Time Warner is already the media company of tomorrow" Slate (9/17/2003) "Icahn wants Time Warner split into four units" Money (12/2/2005) / "Text of Icahn’s letter to Time Warner shareholders" Money (10/11/2005) "Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and the AOL-Time Warner Merger" Business Week (6/8/2006) SEC Charges Time Warner ... "Show Time for AOL Time Warner" Business Week (1/15/2001) "Time Warner stops pushing synergy" (6/2/2006) "Time Warner Turnaround In 2005?" Forbes (12/28/04) "Used Book Sale: AOL slims down — the wrong way" Slate (1/24/2003) "You’ve got Time Warner" CNET News (1/12/2000)
The Motley Fool: "AOL Time-Warner Merger" (2/2/2000) | "When AOL Was a Rule Breaker" (11/11/2004) | "Saving America Online" (11/18/2004) | "AOL: Is Half a Billion Enough?" (12/17/2004) | "AOL, Road Runner Make Fast Friends" (2/1/2005) | "Time Warner Takes Its Time" (2/9/2005) Hoover’s Time Warner Yahoo! Time Warner
- ... and for a little humor The AOL-Time-Warner Merger, by All of the Top Cartoonists

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