Attractiveness Within the Industry
The cable markets industry is heavily saturated with providers of video, data, and voice services. Comcast has built its core business on fiber optic cables; once a sustainable competitive advantage, but now may be a hindrance. As technology improves, customers are now using more bandwidth than ever to power the latest video and Internet services. Comcast is uniquely positioned within the cable markets industry because of its strong alliances, economies of scale, and strategic expansion efforts, true key success factors.
Comcast has entered strategic partnerships to acquire programming and distribution rights from the likes of ABC News, Walt Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and T-Mobile. If the merger
with GE’s NBC Universal is approved by federal regulators, Comcast will be vertically integrated with distribution networks, which help improve the bargaining power it has with suppliers of content. By being vertically integrated with distribution networks, Comcast can leverage its already existing economies of scale to help lower its overall costs of distribution, one of the largest costs for a participant in the cable markets industry. The merger could also allow Comcast access to NBC Universal’s $50 billion in annual revenues; this money could be deployed strategically to replace coaxial cables in rural areas with fiber optic cables. Section 5: Case Presentation All companies face significant operational issues while conducting normal business activities. The strongest companies, however, have a methodology for problem resolution which includes identifying issues, exploring alternatives, implementing changes, and reviewing changes. Broadly speaking, the Comcast Corporation has three significant issues that must be identified. These issues are multifaceted and will be explored in detail in both Section 5 and Section 6 of this case analysis. Alternative solutions to these three issues will be explored. An implementation plan and review process for each issue will be developed. Although all alternatives cannot be implemented, exploring (or “brainstorming”) these issues can provide valuable insight.
Founded in 1966 and based in Calgary, Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet and television services as well as mass media related services. The Company operated through three principal business segments such as Cable, consisted of cable television, Internet, Digital Phone and Shaw Business operations. Satellite, consisted of direct-to-home (DTH) and Satellite Services. Lastly media consisted of television broadcasting. Shaw Media operates as conventional television networks in Canada, Global Television, and numerous specialty networks. It provides customers with entertainment, information and communications services, utilizing a variety of distribution
Robert Zimmerman, the senior vice president of business development, for American Cable Communications (ACC) was in the process of looking for a potential acquisition target for ACC. In December 2007, Zimmerman remember a presentation that was made recently by Rubinstein & Ross (R&R). R&R was a boutique investment bank that was well known for doing deals in the media and telecommunications area. During this presentation it was suggested that ACC buy out AirThread Connections (AirThread) which is a large regional cellular provider. The current industry of these companies were moving more toward bundled service offerings and by adding AirThread it would help ACC cover an area of service it does not currently offer. In order to determine if the acquisition should be done an analysis needs to be done.
Steve Case, chairman of the combined company, said that "AOL Time Warner will lead the convergence of the media, entertainment,
AT&T Wireless is the leading wireless telecommunications provider in the US market. The US wireless market constitutes over 243M wireless subscribers. This represents a market penetration of 81%. The wireless market sells mobility of voice and data (video-media, download content and internet access).
In the digital age, can Dish Network remain a leader in the television industry? What challenges does Dish Network face in the age of streaming? How does Dish Network remain competitive in an ever-changing environment? Below we will discuss a complete analysis of how the company functions inside and out, from the data warehouse and supply chain to the front and back-end customer interactions, sales and programs used for enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems.
Years later, the Telecommunication Act of 1996 triggered dramatic changes in the competitive landscape. SBC Communications Inc. established itself as a global communications provider by acquiring Pacific Telesis Group and becoming the new AT&T. The merger of AT& T and BellSouth, along with the ownership consolidation of Cingular Wireless and YELLOWPAGES.COM, will speed convergence, competition and continued innovation in the communications and entertainment industry, creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and positioned to lead the industry in one of its most signifi...
Cable companies spend billions of dollars each year on items such as infrastructure costs, programming costs, technology development costs, mergers and acquisitions, and interest costs (mentioned in Section 3). Typically, the cable markets companies have no choice but to pass on the costs to consumers. However, as identified in Section 2, the demand for cable industry products is elastic, stemming from the fact that consumers are extremely price sensitive; increasing costs could hurt Comcast’s growth and ability to remain retain customers.
The most important part of Disney’s long-term success is due to its key strategic choices and incorporation of various diversification strategies. Disney created value mainly through “vertical integration” of its business lines, especially through the concept of forward integration. For example, Disney integrated production of movies and the final distribution in cinema’s or on television, especially through its acquisition of ABC in 1995 (1, p.6/7). Through this acquisition, Disney was able to extent its boundaries quickly and gain access to a wider lev...
Employee motivation is one of the keys to success in any business, especially in a retail sales environment. It is particularly important to understand how employee motivation can be impacted by the strengths and weaknesses of AT&T’s retail sales consultant position (RSC). A series of interviews and surveys were conducted over a two-week period with employees of AT&T in the RSC position as well as retail management positions to determine how the employees really feel about this position as well as internal strengths and weaknesses that contribute to employee motivation. Although there are a lot of positive factors that keep the employees motivated within AT&T, there are some weaknesses that can cause employees to become demotivated.
Here various operations should be performed. Drag and drop physical aliases tables from the physical layer. By doing this the aliases tables will be imported to the BMM layer. This can also be done by doing some operations in the logical layer itself. Later on, create logical joins and hierarchies between the tables in the logical layer. The tables in this layer are referred as logical tables. In the below screenshot the icons with the three dimensional arrows are the Hierarchies created for the logical tables Asset, Calendar, STB (Set Top Box) Type, VOD Mode and the VOD Site
The article “Justice Department Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger” by The New York Times was published on November 22, 2017. In this article, the author talks about the disadvantages people will face if the merger between AT&T and Time Warner were to happen. AT&T itself is one of the nation’s largest internet, telephone, and television provider. Time Warner posses huge properties, such as HBO and Warner Bros. Time Warner also possesses news channel CNN and TNT network. AT&T combined with Time Warner will be extremely successful in reaching consumers through the programs of entertainment and news. The union between these two successful companies will harm consumers by raising the price of television and internet subscriptions. Not only
The soft factors can make or break a successful change process, since new structures and strategies are difficult to build upon inappropriate cultures and values. These problems often come up in the dissatisfying results of spectacular mega-mergers. The lack of success and synergies in such mergers is often based in a clash of completely different cultures, values, and styles, which make it difficult to establish effective common systems and structuresBased on the case study, extensive research and annual reports of AT&T the writer has mapped AT&T in the different domains. AT&T should strive to attain a perfect circle as close to the centre as possible, which indicates total synergy, order and equilibrium. Where the circle is skewed drastic change is needed as it moves closer to the outer ring of chaos:
I reason, the idea of their conglomerate is referable to a monopoly. Disney can actually control every aspect of the creation process to the marketing process of a product. For example, Disney’s most recent film Star Wars was a box office success and part of its success is due to the conglomerate that Disney’s. Everything from airing commercials to promoting products or services on its networks and websites is feasible, in regards to their structural network/conglomerate. The concept of media integration and cross promotion Disney has it down to
On December 14, 2000, the Federal Trade Commission approved the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner after both companies pledged to “protect consumer choice” both now and in the future. The AOL Time Warner merger was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on January 11, 2001, and is the biggest merger in corporate history, then estimated at a total market value of $350 billion. The merger created a ‘powerhouse’ of new and traditional media. AOL Time Warner has led the union of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries. Throughout the years the face of media and entertainment industries has changed drastically as a result of increased technology. The popularity of newspapers gave way to other forms of media and entertainment such as magazines, television, cable, music, and most recently the Internet.
We intend to exploit our leadership role by continuing to target and enter segments of the communications market that we believe will experience rapid growth or grow faster than the industry as a whole....